- Description: The two war veterans Keller and Plück roamed with a model of Drachenfels (Germany)
- 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: Mit dem Drachenfels und Königswinter durch die Welt. Angefertigt von den beiden Schwerkriegbeschädigten H. Keller u. A. Plück
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- Description: Bertha Kimball and Mae Lille, depicted in their postcard dressed as American soldiers from World War I, undertook a journey on foot from Indianapolis, Indiana, to San Francisco, California. This trek covered approximately 2'500 miles
- 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
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: New York magazine, vol. 14, 1981.
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Walking from Indpls to Frisco
- Description: Tour of Germany accompanied by his dog
- 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: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Description: Helen Keller was an American author and activist who became deafblind in early childhood. With the assistance of her teacher Anne Sullivan, she developed tactile communication skills and graduated from college in 1904. From the 1910s onward, Keller travelled extensively in the United States and abroad to deliver lectures and advocate for disability rights. She visited Europe, Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa over several decades. Her international tours helped promote education and accessibility programs for blind and deaf communities worldwide. Her major works include The Story of My Life (1903) and Midstream: My Later Life (1929)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1880-1968
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://helenkellerarchive.afb.org/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38203
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. New York: Doubleday, 1903.
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- Description: In 1938, the Englishman King crossed Europe by bicycle
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- 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
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: King A. H. J., Awheel to the Arctic Circle, London, W. J. Fowler & Son, Ltd., 1940.
- Description: Karman Ludwig, Kollar Toni, Penz Martin, and Helleis Josef make up a group of four adventurous musicians depicted on a postcard with stringed musical instruments. Their purpose, as stated on the back, is to explore new places and meet new people
- 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: -
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Unser Ziel und Zweck ist, Land und Volk kennen zu lernen
- Description: In April 1933, a trio from Mumbai embarked on a nine-year expedition covering over 50'000 miles. They were among the first cyclists to ride through Afghanistan, which was isolated at the time. These adventurers were also present at the Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg and were among the first to cycle across the territories of Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Round the world on push-bikes
When Kaikee Kharas, Rustam Ghandhi and Rutton Shroff were lost in the snow-clad mountains of Afghanistan in the mid 1930s on a nine-year cycling expedition around the world, they knocked on the door of a shepherd asking for food and shelter. The herdsman shared his humble meal with them and provided them place to sleep in, but was nowhere to be seen next morning. When the trio went looking for him in the snowy wastes, they found him deep in slumber and nearly dead. They had to rub his limbs and revive him.
- Description: Mary Henrietta Kingsley was a British explorer and writer who defied social conventions and gender stereotypes to travel through West Africa in the late 19th century. The daughter of a doctor, she set off on her own after her parents’ deaths in 1892, venturing into then little-known regions of Gabon, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon. She paddled canoes up rivers, sailed on small trading vessels, and trekked through rainforests, collecting specimens for the British Museum. Her book Travels in West Africa (1897) blends ethnographic observation, wit, and an independent spirit. She died in 1900 in South Africa, where she had volunteered as a nurse during the Second Boer War
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1862-1900
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Africa
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kingsley
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19114163
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Kinsley M., Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons, Macmillan, Londra, 1897.
The funeral cortege of Mary Kingsley at the pier in Simonstown (Wikipedia)
- Description: In the 1930s, Peter Kongstedt devoted himself to "study" travels on foot
- 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: -
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Peter Kongstedt - Beruf Landwirt, ein nordischer Mann auf Reisen, Auf Sudienreisen mit Genehmigung
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