- Description: Charles Maglia Karl made his first round-the-world trip taking more than five years. The second tour was the result of a bet with the supposed 'Societè Sportive Hollandaise'
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Roi des voyageurs
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Wette 34'000 Mark. Die reise zu Fuss in 3 1/2 Jahren um die Erde. tour du monde à pied en 3 1/2 ans, prix 42.500 francs
- Description: World tour organized at the end of the 1920s by two Swiss: Corbond and Maret
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Switzerland, Svizzera, Suisse
- 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
Il giro del mondo in motocicletta. Due motociclisti svizzeri, l'ex aviatore Corbond di Friborgo ed il meccanico Maret di Neuchâtel, partiranno il 15 ottobre prossimo da Berna per compiere il giro del mondo in motocicletta.
- Description: The American traveler referred to in different sources as Martinet, Tal H. Martinet, or Hippolyte Martinet left Seattle on 19 April 1920, barefoot and without money, intending to circle the globe. He carried basic camping gear and was accompanied by a small dog. Along the way, he signed postcards and promoted ideas such as “return to nature for human regeneration” and “a universal language for human harmony". After crossing the United States, he reached Paris in April 1921, where he stayed briefly. That summer he continued his journey through Switzerland and Italy, then traveled on through Albania, Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and Burma. He entered China in September 1922 but died of malaria on 30 September in Dali (Yunnan), about 1,700 km (1'056 miles) from his intended destination, Hong Kong. He was buried on a hillside near the town
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://jumelage.org/francais/martinet/
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Journal de Genève, August 7, 1921. Libera Stampa, August 24, 1921.
Nous avons reçu la visite d'un Américain, M. Martinet, qui fait le tour du monde pieds nus, portant sur son dos son matériel de campement.
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- Description: A versatile and travel-enthusiast from Geneva, in the 1930s, set off for Russia, Turkestan, China, Central Asia. She drew from these experiences to write several successful books; in 1939, she reached India by car along with Annemarie Schwarzenbach, a journey that was turned into a work titled "The Cruel Way, Two Women's Journey from Europe to Kabul". In 2025, the Executive Board of UNESCO approved the inclusion of the archives of writers Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Ella Maillart in the international “Memory of the World” Register
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Kini
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Switzerland, Svizzera, Suisse
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1903-1997
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: http://www.ellamaillart.ch
- Multimedia: https://memobase.ch/it/recordSet/sla-001
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19685776
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Maillart E., Oasi proibite: una donna in viaggio da Pechino al Kashmir, EDT, 2001. Ella Maillart – Double Journey, Antonio Bigini, Mariann Lewinsky Sträuli, 2015.
- Description: Tour of Europe begun in 1929
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Europa-Fahrt beide Beine gelähmt, zur Bestreitung unserer Aufgaben bieten wir diese Bild zum Andenken an unsere Durchreise an
- Description: Luigi Masetti is the first and perhaps the most famous Italian cyclist of the nineteenth century. From 1892 to 1900, he traveled tens of thousands of kilometers around the world. In 1892, he covered 3'500 km on the roads of the Old Continent. The following year, sponsored by Corriere della Sera, he left Milan to reach the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1900, he embarked on an 18'000 km journey through Italy, Morocco, Northern Europe, Russia, and Turkey
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Anarchico delle due ruote
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1864-1940
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Masetti
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3839867
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Rossi L., L’anarchico delle due ruote: Luigi Masetti: il primo cicloviaggiatore italiano, Milano-Chicago e altre imprese di fine Ottocento, Portogruaro: Ediciclo, 2008.
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Ricordo del viaggio ciclistico
Pioniere dei viaggi avventurosi e protagonista di grandi imprese, nel 1893 compì il viaggissimo Milano-Londra-Chicago-Londra-Milano in bicicletta. Luigi Masetti era un poeta del viaggio, un eroe del fango e della polvere, un ciclista che riuniva le folle al suo passaggio. L'anarchico delle due ruote, così il fondatore del Corriere della Sera definì il primo cicloviaggiatore del quale si abbia memoria. Il resoconto del suo viaggio venne pubblicato a puntate sulle pagine del Corriere della Sera e un suo lungo ritratto apparve sulla rivista del Touring Club Italiano.
- Description: In the 1930s, Richard Mainzer traveled the roads of Europe accompanied by a barrel
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Der Fassroller: Richard Mainzer, Eller (Mosel)
- Description: Kate Marsden was a British nurse and missionary, best known for her extraordinary journey to Siberia at the end of the nineteenth century. Motivated by philanthropic zeal, she set out to reach the leper colonies of Yakutia. In 1891 she departed from Moscow and travelled roughly 11,200 km (7,000 miles) by horse, sledge, and on foot, facing extreme cold and isolation. She established a leper hospital and gathered first-hand accounts of the disease, later publishing a travel narrative that gained wide attention in Europe
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1859-1931
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa, Asia
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Marsden
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q546303
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Marsden, Kate. On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers. London: Record Press, 1893. Hartley, Janet M. Siberia: A History of the People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Woods, Michael. Women Explorers in Africa: Kate Marsden and Others. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1992.
- Description: The Mason family left Nome, Alaska, in 1908 for a 32'000-mile journey around the world. The goal was to arrive at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Wagon, Carro, Char
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
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