- Description: Richard Schottstaedt was a young Alsatian who embarked on a world tour adventure
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Tour du monde 40.000 kil. à pied en 5 ans (sans argent) vit de vente de cartes postales. Parti le 7 janvier 1910 d'Alexandrie (Egypte). Reise um die Welt, Round the world, Giro del mondo
- Description: The young man from Leipzig embarked on a bicycle tour around the world in the early 20th century; during his journey in the East, he became friends with Karl May
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1877-
- 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://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Willy_Schwiegershausen
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Auf dem Reise um die Welt, Weltwanderfahrer
- Description: On April 25, 2001, Alberto Fiorin, Aldo Maroso, and eight other friends set off from Venice on bicycles headed for Beijing. The Silk Road required 96 days of effort for a total of 12'000 kilometers
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Silk Road, Via della seta, Route de la soie
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Maroso A., Fiorin A., Strade d’Oriente : in bicicletta da Venezia a Pechino, Ediciclo editore, 2003.
Classe 1949, docente di matematica per professione, è, invece, per passione, cicloturista ed escursionista. Ha partecipato alla spedizione Bassano - Mosca in bici nel 1989, ha esplorato (in gommone e mountain bike) i gulag staliniani in Siberia, ha vissuto, sempre in bici, l’avventura Venezia – Pechino, 12000 km lungo la via della seta (2001).
- 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: Sylvette Marmeuse travels across Switzerland on foot to raise awareness about unemployment and cross-border issues. A 55-year-old from Fribourg, she started from Le Locle and covered 3'000 km
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Switzerland, Svizzera, Suisse
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1954-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Internet: https://www.rtn.ch/rtn/Actualite/Regionale/141209Retour-de-Sylvette.html
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: LaRegioneTicino, 16 luglio 2009.
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- Description: Unknown globetrotter of the 1920s
- 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: Europe, Europa
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Die letzte Droschkenfahrt des "Eisernen Gustav" Berlin-Paris Paris Berlin
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- Description: In the 1930s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach participated in several archaeological excavation campaigns in Iran and Syria. She published numerous articles about her travels in the United States; in 1939, she accompanied Ella Maillart on a long car journey that took them to India, passing through Iran and Afghanistan. She died on September 6, 1942, following a bicycle accident. 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: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Switzerland, Svizzera, Suisse
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1908-1942
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annemarie_Schwarzenbach
- Multimedia: https://memobase.ch/it/recordSet/sla-001
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123368
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- Description: Prince Luigi Marcantonio Francesco Rodolfo Scipione Borghese, known as Scipione Borghese, participated in and won the 1907 Beijing to Paris car race, accompanied for the occasion by journalist Luigi Barzini and driver Ettore Guizardi. Already in 1900, he embarked on a journey from Beirut to the Pacific Ocean, which he described in the book "In Asia: Syria, Euphrates, Babylon", published in 1903
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1871-1927
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scipione_Borghese,_10th_Prince_of_Sulmona
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1131481
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Scipione Borghese, In Asia: Siria, Eufrate, Babilonia, 1903.
- Description: The young globetrotter hits the road with a bicycle and a trailer in tow
- 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: Europe, Europa
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Eine Reise um Europa Österreich
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| Globetrotter contemporanei, Contemporary globetrotters, Globetrotteurs contemporains |
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