- 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: 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: World tour in the 1930s
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- 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: Hannover, germany, Juni 1932, Auf Weltreise, touring round the world, tour du monde
- 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: 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.
- Description: Max Reisch was an Austrian long-distance travel pioneer, orientalist, geographer, journalist, and author. In 1933 he completed the first overland motorcycle journey from Europe to India, covering around 13,000 km (8,000 miles) on a specially equipped Puch 250. In 1935-1936 he performed the first automobile circumnavigation of the globe via mainland Southeast Asia using a modified Steyr 100, traveling through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam to China, then via Japan and the USA back to Austria
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Austria
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1912-1985
- 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: http://www.maxreisch.at
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1913276
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Reisch, Max. India, the Shimmering Dream: The First Overland Journey to India by Motorcycle in 1933. Poundbury: Veloce Publ., 2018.
Der Kufsteiner Forscher und Pionier Prof. Dr. Max Reisch (1912–1985) hat der Nachwelt ein kulturhistorisch achtbares Erbe hinterlassen. In der "Sammlung Max Reisch", die seit Herbst 2008 im Reisch-Archiv in Bozen gegen Voranmeldung zu besichtigen ist, wird den Besuchern ein Einblick in das Lebenswerk des bedeutenden Tirolers gewährt. Unter anderem werden die Expeditionsfahrzeuge, das Orient-Archiv und seine Asiatika-Sammlung präsentiert.
- 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
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- Description: J. France Redmond, known as "Hi Jack", explored the United States on stilts, repeatedly traversing the coast-to-coast route
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Hi Jack
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Stilts, Trampoli, Echasses
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Internet: https://stiltangel.blogspot.com/2007/09/historic-stilt-walkers.html
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Nationally Famous and only long distance stilt Walker. Over 30 years a National Advertiser, and hiked 55,000 miles along highways - thru U. S.A. - delivering messages for friends, relatives and officials along routes on stilts. Now enroute Hollywood, California, to New York City, Atlantic City and return- a 10,000 mile hike. Favors appreciated. Yours truly, J. France Redmond. "Over 40,000 miles walked on stilts. 27 years a stilt walker - age 49 years. Human Skyscraper 11 1/2 feet to top of hat."
- Description: Konstantin Konstantinovich Rengarten was a Russian journalist, writer, and traveler known as the first person to complete a pedestrian circumnavigation of the globe. He commenced his journey on August 15, 1894, from Riga and finished on September 27, 1898 — spanning 4 years, 1 month, and 13 days and covering approximately 26,876 km (16’700 miles). Along the way, he wrote articles and reports for several German-language newspapers
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Russia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1864-1906
- 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://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Rengarten
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4393226
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