- Description: Smith departed from Alaska on November 14, 1905, and arrived in Washington D.C. on February 20, 1907
- 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: USA
- Description: Originally from a well-off farming family in New Lebanon, New York, Stephen G. Spier was one of the first American cyclists to attempt a transcontinental journey in the 1880s. Spier claimed to have crossed the United States by bicycle in 1886, departing from the East Coast and reaching San Francisco. According to an article published in the San Francisco Morning Call on September 11, 1886, he carried a travel logbook signed by postmasters along the route to document the authenticity of his journey. Unlike other cyclists of the time, such as Van Meerbeke, Spier appeared surprisingly fit upon arrival, raising doubts about the truthfulness of his account. Some observers, including Karl Kron (the pseudonym of Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg), questioned the journey, suggesting that Spier may have used freight trains for part of the route—a not uncommon practice among touring cyclists of the era. The last known record of Spier’s cycling activity dates back to 1894, when he promoted a race in Los Angeles after a trip to Mexico. His 1886 journey remains documented only through newspaper articles and indirect accounts, the reliability of which is still debated
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Velocipede, Vélocipède
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Internet: https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?o=3d2&page_id=653570&v=NC
S. G. Spier, who claims the championship for long-distance riding, arrived in this city on last Thursday evening at 9 o’clock. His principal reason for traversing the continent on a bicycle was to beat the world’s record, made by Thomas Stevens in 1884. Mr. Spier is 22 years old, stands five feet eight inches, and weighs 150 pounds. He came overland on a 52-inch wheel.
- Description: Carl Stearns Clancy was one of the first motorcyclists to ride around the world, an achievement completed between 1912 and 1913. He set out from New York with Walter Rendell Storey on two Henderson Four motorcycles—934 cc engines, 7 horsepower—and crossed Europe, Africa, and Asia, reaching as far as Japan before returning to the United States via the Pacific, covering roughly 18'000 miles in 10 months
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1890-1971
- 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
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Stearns_Clancy
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16006940
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Frazier, Gregory W. Motorcycle Adventurer: Carl Stearns Clancy: First Motorcyclist to Ride Around the World 1912–1913. iUniverse, 2010.
- Description: Baptiste Souque, who is blind, undertook a tour of France accompanied by his friend Pierre Barré. Baptiste participated in several similar adventures accompanied by people with disabilities
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- 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: France, Francia
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Pierre Barré, ex-forain, paralysé à l'age de 37 ans, Baptiste Souque, ex-employé de commerce, aveugle, Tour de France à pied au nom des camarades unis par le malheur
- Description: Freya Stark was a British–Italian explorer and travel writer, celebrated as one of the first Western women to travel in the southern Arabian Desert in modern times and the author of more than twenty books on the Middle East. She learned Arabic and Persian and undertook journeys through Iran, Syria, Turkey, and beyond, recounting them with sensitivity, cultural depth, and personal rigor. After her marriage in 1947 and her propaganda work during the Second World War, she continued to travel in the region, publishing memoirs and essays until her death
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1893-1993
- 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/Freya_Stark
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q292480
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Stark, Freya. The Valleys of the Assassins: And Other Persian Travels. London: John Murray, 1934. Stark, Freya. The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut. London: John Murray, 1936. Stark, Freya. A Winter in Arabia. London: John Murray, 1940.
One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
Freya Stark (Cited in Molly Izzard, A Marvellous Eye, Cornucopia Issue 2)
- Description: Disabled, missing a leg, embarked on a journey from Chicago to Seattle in 1909
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Chicago to Seattle
- Description: He covered 30'000 miles by kayak: in 1932, he left from Ulm in Germany and arrived in Australia in 1939
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1907-1993
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Canoa, Kayak
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: -
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Speck
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88968
- Description: In the 1920s, Jakob Staroselski from Riga embarked on the endeavor of cycling around the world. There are few records confirming the actual accomplishment of this feat
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Latvia, Lettonia, Lettonie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- 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
- Description: Thomas Stevens is considered the first man to have completed a round-the-world journey by bicycle, between 1884 and 1887. He left San Francisco on April 22, 1884, heading east, initially following the Central Pacific Railroad to Ogden, Utah, and then continuing along the Union Pacific. He reached Chicago on July 4, 1884, and completed the North American leg in Boston. After crossing the Atlantic, he landed in Liverpool and began his journey across Europe, passing through England, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the Balkans, arriving in Istanbul. From there, after a stop in Asia Minor, he embarked for India, where he cycled across much of the subcontinent as far as Calcutta. Stevens then continued toward East Asia, but was forced to abandon the route in China due to political instability and logistical challenges. He redirected to Japan, where he completed the final leg of his trip before returning to the United States in January 1887. His journey, first reported in magazines such as Outing and later published in the book Around the World on a Bicycle (1887)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1854-1935
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Velocipede, Vélocipède
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.gutenberg.org/author/Stevens,+Thomas+(1854-1935)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7794200
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Thomas Stevens, Around the world on a bicycle, C. Scribner's Sons, 1889.
He is of medium height (5'5") and well built (about 140 pounds), he has a very pleasing manner. He is naturally the fairest of blondes, but so thoroughly have the sun and the wind done their work that, were it not for his light moustache, his face would be taken for anything rather than a white man's. He is an Englishman by birth, and is about 29 years of age.
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