- Details
- Hits: 1157
- Description: Valery Sushkov is a Russian travel explorer, postal historian, documentary filmmaker, sommelier, restaurateur and hotelier with over 30 years of experience in the tourism and hospitality industry. He is the originator of the concept of "philatourism" - a form of travel combining philately and tourism - and the author of the world's first philatourism guidebook, published in Russia. He has visited over 50 countries, created over 100 travel brands, and participated in or organised over 100 expeditions across six continents. Notable expeditions include participation in an Antarctic expedition to the South Pole as a radio operator, and the organisation and leadership of an expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. He is also an editor of regional guidebooks, director, screenwriter and producer of travel documentaries
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: philatourist №1
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Russia, Russia, Russie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Vari, Divers
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://postventure.ru/valery-sushkov
- Multimedia: https://rutube.ru/video/7b2a9f03220f8a892d4f0e5b87de6cbf/
- Details
- Hits: 17550
- Description: Louise Sutherland left London in 1949, returning in 1956 after crossing Europe, Asia, and America. She described her adventures in the book 'I Follow the Wind', written and published directly by Sutherland. In the book 'The Impossible Ride', the author narrates her crossing of the Trans Amazon Highway
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: New Zeland, Nuova Zelanda
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1926-1994
- 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Sutherland
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6688970
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Sutherland L., The Impossible Ride: The First Bicycle Ride Across the Amazon Jungle, Southern Cross Press, 1990. Sutherland L., I follow the wind. An account of the author's travels round the world on a bicycle, 1960.
Louise Sutherland planned her own route – one that was far longer and rougher than any Tour de France. She was the first person ever to cycle right across Brazil, through the Amazon Jungle.
- Details
- Hits: 20623
- Description: Rosie Swale-Pope walked around the world in 5 years. The goal was to cover as much ground as possible by land in the northern hemisphere, without support or technical assistance. Departing from Tenby, Wales, on October 2, 2003, she returned home on August 25, 2008, after going through 53 pairs of shoes
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1946-
- 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: http://www.rosiearoundtheworld.co.uk
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4410974
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Swale-Pope R., Just a Little Run Around the World, HarperTrue, 2009.
Rosie Swale-Pope, is an author, adventurer and marathon runner who successfully completed a five-year around-the-world run, raising £250,000 for a charity that supports orphaned children in Russia and to highlight the importance of early diagnosis of prostate cancer. Other achievements include sailing single-handed across the Atlantic in a small boat, and trekking 3,000 miles alone through Chile on horseback.
- Details
- Hits: 5012
- Description: Adam Swanson from Minnesota (USA) embarked on a remarkable journey on the road with his bike
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: acrosstheworldbybike
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- 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
- Internet: https://twowheelsoneworld.org
- Details
- Hits: 17137
- Description: In 2007, Francis Tapon became the first backpacker to hike the Continental Divide Trail both ways. His achievements also include the Pacific Crest Trail and the Appalachian Trail. The globetrotter's goal is to visit every country in the world
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- 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: http://www.francistapon.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16213279
- Details
- Hits: 1122
- Description: Leopoldo Tartarini (Bologna, 1932-2015) was an Italian motorcycle racer and entrepreneur. Giorgio Monetti was his childhood friend and university student. Tartarini had raced for Ducati in long-distance road events such as the Milano-Taranto and the Moto Giro d'Italia, until road racing was banned for safety reasons. With a remaining year on his Ducati contract, he proposed to Ducati managing director Giuseppe Montano a promotional tour - initially to Turkey, then expanded to Africa and finally to a full round-the-world journey. On 30 September 1957, blessed by Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro before 1,000 factory workers at the Ducati plant in Bologna, the two departed on two standard Ducati 175 Tourismo motorcycles modified with crash bars, rear luggage racks and aluminium cases. Over 12 months they covered more than 60,000 km across 42 countries and five continents: Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India, Burma, Indonesia (by ship to Borneo and New Guinea), Australia (Darwin to Sydney), New Zealand, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and by ship to Dakar, then Morocco, Gibraltar, Spain and back to Bologna, arriving on 5 September 1958. They were arrested as suspected spies in Indonesia and rode through Syria during a period of political tension. The journey, filmed on 16 mm cameras, is described as the world's first corporate motorcycle adventure. Tartarini later founded Italjet in 1959. The two original motorcycles were certified as unique historical examples by the Automotoclub Storico Italiano (ASI) in 2020
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- 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
- Internet: http://1mapx2.com/en/the-film/
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Montanari, Roberto. Road Map: Il leggendario giro del mondo di Tartarini & Monetti su Ducati 175. LullaBit, 2018.
- Details
- Hits: 1020
- Description: Between 1957 and 1964 he completed two round-the-world motorcycle journeys, visiting approximately 100 countries across four continents and meeting around 40 heads of state, kings and political leaders, carrying greetings from Syrian youth. His first journey covered Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, then the USSR, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, West and East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, returning to Syria. His second journey covered Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, France and England, then Canada, the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil, before returning via the United Kingdom, Senegal and across Africa to Syria. In total he covered approximately 153,000 km. He wrote ten books in Arabic about his travels, including East Meets West on a Motorcycle (1959) and Around the World by Motorcycle: 153,000 km in 7 Years Between 64 Capitals of the World (1982)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Syria, Siria, Syrie
- 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
- Internet: http://www.berndtesch.de
- Details
- Hits: 2704
- Description: Tiziano Terzani was an acclaimed Italian journalist and writer renowned for his lifelong reporting from Asia. As Der Spiegel’s Asian correspondent from 1971, he lived in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, and Bangkok—later settling in India in 1994. He witnessed historic events including the fall of Saigon, Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Maoist China, and the end of the Soviet bloc. His reportage collected in In Asia blends geopolitical insight with cultural and human detail. In A Fortune‑Teller Told Me (1998), he recounts an entire year avoiding planes due to a prophecy, traveling across Asia overland and rediscovering a continent of ordinary people, mystics, and transformations between tradition and modernity. Letters Against War (2004) offers thoughtful reflections after 9/11 on empathy, peace, and the limitations of Western judgment. The End Is My Beginning (2006), written with his son Folco, serves as both memoir and spiritual testament
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1938-2004
- 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/Tiziano_Terzani
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44534
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Terzani, Tiziano. Un indovino mi disse. Milano: TEA, 1995.
E io che dico: non sono un intellettuale, sono solo un aspirapolvere: giro per il mondo raccogliendo storie. Sempre più isolato. Nessuno vuole davvero ascoltare. Dovrò aspettare un’altra occasione per essere riscoperto.
Tiziano Terzani, Un'idea di destino. Diari di una vita straordinaria
Ho scoperto prestissimo che i migliori compagni di viaggio sono i libri: parlano quando si ha bisogno, tacciono quando si vuole silenzio. Fanno compagnia senza essere invadenti. Danno moltissimo, senza chiedere nulla.
Tiziano Terzani, Un indovino mi disse
Ogni posto è una miniera. Basta lasciarcisi andare. Darsi tempo, stare seduti in una casa da tè a osservare la gente che passa, mettersi in un angolo del mercato, andare a farsi i capelli e poi seguire il bandolo di una matassa che può cominciare con una parola, con un incontro, con l'amico di un amico di una persona che si è appena incontrata e il posto più scialbo, più insignificante della terra diventa uno specchio del mondo, una finestra sulla vita, un teatro di umanità dinanzi al quale ci si potrebbe fermare senza più il bisogno di andare altrove. La miniera è esattamente là dove si è: basta scavare.
Tiziano Terzani, Il missionario e lo stregone, 1997
Viaggiare era sempre stato per me un modo di vivere e ora avevo preso la malattia come un altro viaggio: un viaggio involontario, non previsto, per il quale non avevo carte geografiche, per il quale non mi ero in alcun modo preparato, ma che di tutti i viaggi fatti fino ad allora era il più impegnativo, il più intenso.
Tiziano Terzani, Un altro giro di giostra
- Details
- Hits: 7992
- Description: Bernd Tesch was a German motorcycle adventurer, author, equipment manufacturer, survival trainer and the world's foremost expert on long-distance motorcycle travel. From 1970 onwards he devoted over four decades to documenting motorcycle journeys around the world, personally visiting the most celebrated motorcycle travellers in Denmark (1991), Britain (1993), the United States (1994) and Australia (1999-2000). He compiled the world's largest database of round-the-world motorcycle journeys, covering over 249 documented expeditions from 1912 to 2014. He founded the Globetrott-Zentrale in Simmerath-Hammer, Eifel, Germany, which served as a reference point and community hub for generations of long-distance motorcyclists worldwide. He organised the annual Tesch Travel Treffen from 1977 onwards, a yearly gathering of motorcycle world travellers. He developed the Tesch aluminium panniers, which became standard equipment for long-distance motorcycle expeditions. He gave 45 survival courses for travellers and managers in the Eifel forest between 1978 and the 2010s. He authored numerous books on motorcycle travel and published an extensive library of over 185 motorcycle travel titles
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1941-2025
- 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://berndtesch.de
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Afrika-Motorrad-Reisen Ratgeber: Motorrad(Ver-)Führer Für Fernreisen. 2. Aufl. Globetrott-Zentrale Tesch; 1988.
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Reisen ist die beste Schule des Lebens