- 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: Robert Louis Stevenson, famed author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, was also an indefatigable traveler. Frail in health, he turned to travel as both remedy and inspiration. In 1878, he walked through France’s Cévennes region with only a donkey named Modestine, an experience that led to Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, one of the first works of modern travel literature. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile, 12 day hike, accompanied only by his stubborn and unwieldy donkey, through the Cevennes of south-central France. A pioneering piece of outdoor literature, it is one of Stevenson's earliest works, and one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping for recreation rather than necessity. He later journeyed to the United States and, from 1888, settled in Samoa, where locals affectionately called him “Tusitala,” the “teller of tales”
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: R.L.S.
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1850–1894
- 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/Robert_Louis_Stevenson
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1512
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Stevenson, Robert Louis, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, London, 1879. Stevenson, Robert Louis, In the South Seas, London, 1896.
- Description: In 1901, Gaston Stiegler, a journalist for the newspaper Le Matin, completed a round-the-world trip in 63 days
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Stiegler
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3099157
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Stiegler, G. (1901). Le tour du monde en 63 jours. Paris: Société française d'imprimerie et de librairie.
Le 29 mai 1901 à 1 h 50, Gaston Stiegler, homme de lettres et journaliste, s'embarquait dans le train de Russie à la gare du Nord. Le 30 au matin, il arrivait à Berlin, le 31 à Saint-Pétersbourg, le 1er juin à Moscou, le 3 juin à Samara.
- 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: A coast-to-coast journey from Los Angeles to New York completed by the Stewart couple on a sidecar in 1913
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Stewart D., Going Some 1913, First Coast To Coast Trip By Motorcycle and Sidecar, Editor Dorothy G. Stewart, 1913.
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Going Some, 1913 - first coast to coast trip by motorcycle and sidecar. A true adventure compiled and edited by Doroty G. Stewart
- Description: Clärenore Stinnes, born Clara Eleonore Stinnes, was a German racing driver and one of the first women to completely circumnavigate the globe by car between 1927 and 1929. At the age of twenty-six, she set out in an Adler Standard 6 with only two spare tires and a small crew: two mechanics and the young Swedish cinematographer Carl-Axel Söderström, whom she had met just two days before departure. She crossed Europe, the Middle East, Siberia, the Gobi Desert, Beijing, North America, and the Andes to Buenos Aires, then traveled north again to New York, where they were received by President Hoover. The journey continued by sea to Le Havre and Berlin, covering about 47,000 km (29,200 miles)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Clara Eleonore Stinnes
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1901-1990
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A4renore_Stinnes
- Multimedia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbq-kcZ-rKk
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107778
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Stinnes, Clärenore. Im Auto durch zwei Welten: Die erste Autofahrt einer Frau um die Welt, 1927 bis 1929. Promedia, 1996. Söderström, Carl-Axel; Habinger, Gabriele. Eine Frau fährt um die Welt: Die spektakuläre Reise der Clärenore Stinnes 1927–1929. Munich, 2017.
First circumnavigation by car
Racing driver Clärenore Stinnes (Germany), accompanied by film-maker Carl-Axel Söderström (Sweden), embarked upon what is considered to be the first round-the-world drive on 25 May 1927, setting off from Frankfurt in Germany and finishing just beyond the starting point in Berlin on 24 June 1929, a total of 46’063 km (28’622 miles). The pair drove a 50-hp Adler Standard 6 automobile that was unmodified save for two lounge seats, added to give extra comfort. The entire trip took 2 years, 1 month and encompassed 23 countries. The following year, Stinnes and Söderström, who had met just two days prior to their departure in 1927, married.
Guinness Book of World Records 2014.
- 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.
- Description: Stewart J.W. and his large family (wife and six children), on a wagon pulled by two horses, traveled the 3'000 miles separating Waltrous, Sask from Montreal
- 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: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: 3000 Miles - two Horsepower - But Plenty of Faith from Waltrous, Sask to Montreal
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- Description: Departing from Prague in 1919, Martin Stojar embarked on a round-the-world trip on foot
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Czech Republic, Repubblica Ceca, République Tchèque
- 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: Sportsman international - le premier sourd-muet de la République Tchéco-Slovaque accomplissant le tour du monde à pied
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