- Description: Journey from Maine to California
- 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: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Maine to California
- Description: Sergio Ramazzotti, among other achievements, made a journey from Algiers to Cape Town by bicycle, on foot, or by any means of transport and without money
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Ramazzotti
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3956240
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Ramazzotti S., Vado verso il Capo, Feltrinelli, 1996.
Un giorno il direttore di un giornale disse a un suo inviato: “Un'idea eccezionale: parti per l'Africa e l'attraversi con i mezzi pubblici. Facciamo vedere ai nostri lettori cosa significa viaggiare in bus nel Continente Nero, altro che macchine da rally!” L'inviato era Sergio Ramazzotti e credeva di conoscere l'Africa, ma ancora non gli era successo di percorrerne le strade come uno dei suoi tanti abitanti senza mezzi, con una sacca in spalla che contiene tutto il mondo.
- Description: The Turin-native Gianluca Ratta and his dog have been walking around Italy and Europe since 1999. They have collectively walked 40'000 km, rightfully entering the Guinness World Records for the longest walk by a man and a dog
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- 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
Gianluca Ratta, torinese, ha già percorso a piedi più di 47 mila km con l'husky Shira. Questo è l'ultimo viaggio insieme "Ti hanno abbandonata, mi piacerebbe portarti con me, ma dovrai camminare molto in mia compagnia". Con queste parole è iniziato dodici anni fa in Sicilia il rapporto di affetto tra Gianluca Ratta e il suo cane Shira, un husky dal pelo folto. Lui, quarantenne torinese con un sogno nel cassetto: girare il mondo a piedi. Lei, lasciata sola da un padrone poco responsabile e in cerca di un nuovo amico. I due sono partiti per un viaggio attraverso tutta l’Europa, riassunto nel libro autobiografico "Io e Shira".
- Description: One of the four 'Overland Westerners': between 1912 and 1915, rode to all 48 state capitals in the United States. The group covered a total of 20'352 miles and financed the trip by making public appearances in cities
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Overland Westerners
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On horseback, A cavallo, A cheval
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: First to ride horseback to all fifty states. George and his horse, Pinto, made their historic ride in 1912. They ended their ride in San Francisco, expecting a hero's welcome. Instead, they were hardly noticed. They both died tragic deaths without fame or fortune
- Description: Giuseppe Quarti, from Bergamo, walked the route from Bergamo to Rome, before embarking on a tour of Italy on foot in the 1920s
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- 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: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Il pellegrino Quarti Giuseppe di Bergamo, combattente nella grande guerra e volontario della Dalmazia (coniugato). Reduce da un Pellegrinaggio a piedi Bergamo-Roma e ritorno Km. 1600 in 40 giorni. Compie ora il Il Giro d'Italia a piedi Km. 7600 circa coll'itinerario Bergamo-Sondrio-Milano-Torino-Ventimiglia-Genova-Roma-Reggio Calabria-Taranto-Ancona-Venezia-Trieste-Fiume-Trento-Bergamo. Per rendere omaggio ai monumenti dei Gloriosi Caduti della Grande Guerra. Vivendo con la presente cartolina offre per il modestimo aiuto e ringrazia
- Description: In the early 20th century, Alice Ramsey was the first woman to complete a coast-to-coast journey by car
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Huyler_Ramsey
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q527103
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: McConnell C., A reliable car and a woman who knows it: the first coast-to-coast auto trips by women, 1899-1916, McFarland, 2000.
On June 9, 1909, Alice Ramsey and three other women left New York City while driving a Maxwell touring car. Forty-one driving days, 11 tires and 3,800 miles later they arrived in San Francisco, where they were met by a large fanfare celebration. Alice Ramsey and her companions (who did not drive during the trip) experienced numerous challenges during the journey, including bad roads, poor weather, flat tires and mechanical breakdowns.
- Description: Slavomir Rawicz was a Polish officer sentenced to 25 years of forced labor in a Siberian gulag. "Twelve months had passed since my arrest in Pinsk on November 19, 1939, and that day was to be significant for me: I was about to be tried before the Soviet Supreme Court. Just a year earlier, when during a gathering organized by my mother to celebrate my return, the men of the Russian secret police appeared; I was Lieutenant Rawicz of the Polish cavalry: twenty-four years old, slim and elegant in a well-tailored uniform, with shiny boots." Following the trial, Slavomir Rawicz was sentenced as a spy to 25 years of forced labor in Siberia. The journey from Moscow to the prison camp lasted three months, in the heart of winter. Many prisoners died during the journey; Rawicz survived and in the following spring organized an escape with six other inmates. In June 1941, they crossed the Trans-Siberian railway and headed south. The march lasted almost a year, covering more than 6'500 kilometers on foot through some of the most inhospitable territories on earth, including deserts and ice fields. Those who survived the extreme hardships of the journey reached India in March 1942, where they were rescued and cared for by the British. Reading about the harrowing odyssey faced by Rawicz and his companions, one feels as if they are there with them, enduring hunger, thirst, and freezing cold, while also sharing moments of intense human warmth, generosity, and pure heroism. There is no concrete evidence confirming the actual completion of the journey
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Poland, Polonia, Polonie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1915-2004
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Rawicz
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q563218
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Rawicz, Slavomir. 2011. Tra noi e la libertà. Milano: Corbaccio. Ne è stato tratto un film The Way Back, girato da Peter Weir nel 2012.
Con un inspiegabile ritardo di due anni, esce venerdì 6 luglio nelle sale italiane “The Way Back” di Peter Weir, un film con una fotografia seducente e location spettacolari (di cui parlo su Panorama Travel di luglio, in edicola). Il regista si è ispirato a una storia vera: quella di Slawomir Rawicz (1915-2004), prigioniero polacco in Siberia nel Gulag 303, da lì fuggito nel 1941 con alcuni compagni e – dopo un viaggio tanto avventuroso quanto incredibile di 6500 chilometri a piedi – approdato nell’India britannica, dopo aver varcato l’Himalaya. La sua storia è narrata nel libro The Long Walk (1956), riedito in italiano da Corbaccio in occasione dell’uscita del film con il titolo Tra noi e la libertà.
- Description: Tour of France with a scale model of the Eiffel Tower
- 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: Tour de France, Vélo-Car-Bateau
- Description: According to a newspaper report, Mr. Radoikowich, a journalist by profession, set himself the goal of travelling around the world on foot and without money. At the time of the article, he had already visited Montenegro, Hungary, Austria, Dalmatia, and Italy, and was preparing to continue through Switzerland, France, and beyond, with the intention of completing the journey by 1915
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- 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
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Gazzetta Ticinese, Juin 17, 1911.
Un giornalista globe-trotter. Un collega in giornalismo, il sig. Radoikowich, si è prefisso lo scopo di fare il giro del mondo a piedi e senza un soldo! Ha già visitato il Montenegro, l’Ungheria, l’Austria, la Dalmazia, l’Italia; ora si accinge a visitare la Svizzera, la Francia ecc. ecc., per terminare il giro del mondo col 1915. Gli abbiamo fatto un mondo di complimenti e di auguri e l’abbiamo assicurato che, da parte nostra, non avrà mai dei competitori.
Gazzetta Ticinese, 17 giugno 1911
- Description: One of the four 'Overland Westerners': between 1912 and 1915, rode to all 48 state capitals in the United States. The group covered a total of 20'352 miles and financed the trip by making public appearances in cities
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Overland Westerners
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On horseback, A cavallo, A cheval
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: First to ride horseback to all fifty states. George and his horse, Pinto, made their historic ride in 1912. They ended their ride in San Francisco, expecting a hero's welcome. Instead, they were hardly noticed. They both died tragic deaths without fame or fortune
- Description: The Long Walk is a novel by Stephen King published in 1979. The plot revolves around the participants of a march organized annually by a despotic version of the United States of America. The protagonist of the novel is Ray Garraty, a sixteen-year-old who participates in the competition along with 99 other competitors
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- 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
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q384160
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Stephen King, La lunga marcia, Sperling & Kupfer, 2004.
- Description: Charles Edward Reade, known as Nauticus, undertook various journeys using a Coventry Rotary tricycle he named 'Chummy'. Despite adverse road conditions, he covered 1'500 miles in England and 2'462 miles in Scotland
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Nauticus
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1842-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Tricycle, Triciclo, Tricycle
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Reade C. E., Nauticus on his hobby horse: Or the adventures of a sailor during a tricycle cruise of 1427 miles, London, William Ridgeway, 1880. Reade C. E., Nauticus in Scotland: a tricycle tour of 2462 miles, London, Simkin, Marshall & Co., 1883.
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