Gluscevic Yanko (w3413)
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- Description: Yanko Gluscevic was a Chilean cattle rancher, aviator and karate instructor. In 1972, during the agrarian reform of Salvador Allende's Unidad Popular government, he lost his ranch and left Chile, becoming, in his own words, "a globetrotter who travelled, lived and worked in more than forty countries over five years." Between 1969 and 1989 he travelled the world by motorcycle through more than 40 countries, including a journey through Africa during the Rhodesian Bush War. In the 1980s he returned to Chile and founded Rancho Río Sol, described as the first adventure tourism complex in Chile, running fifteen-day horse expeditions into the Andes. In the 1990s he founded Yanko Moto Tours (YMT), organising enduro motorcycle tours through the Bolivian Amazon, the Atacama Desert and Patagonia. He recounted his travels in the English-language Yanko, published by Trafford Publishing, Canada, in 2004, and later translated into Spanish as Yanko: Una lucha por sobrevivir
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Chile, Cile, Chili
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Gluscevic, Yanko. Yanko. Trafford Publishing, Canada, 2004. Gluscevic, Yanko. Yanko: Una lucha por sobrevivir. 2023.
