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- Description: Round-the-world bicycle tour by French writers Alexandre Poussin and Sylvain Tesson
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Tesson
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2266390
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Alexandre Poussin, Sylvain Tesson. On a roulé sur la terre. Paris: Pocket, 2008.
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- Description: Launched in 2002, The World cruise ship is the largest residential vessel in the world, consisting of 165 luxury residences. In addition to private residences, the ship features a variety of communal areas such as restaurants, bars, a spa, a gym, a library, and even a miniature golf course. Its itinerary is unique, as it is decided annually with the active participation of the residents, allowing them to explore remote and exotic destinations around the world, turning every journey into an unforgettable and personalized experience
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Boat, ship, Barca, nave, Bateau
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://aboardtheworld.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1495908
MS The World is a residential cruise ship. Unlike other cruise ships, which operate like a resort, it is operated like a condominium complex, with large cabins that can be purchased. The residents, from about 19 countries, live on board as the ship travels. Some residents choose to live on board full-time while others visit periodically throughout the year. The ship is operated by ROW Management, Ltd., headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.
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- Description: Peggy Iris Thomas was a British motorcyclist and writer from Liverpool. In 1950 she purchased a BSA D1 Bantam 125 cc which she named "Oppy". In spring 1951 she sailed to Canada and began a solo motorcycle journey through Canada, the United States and Mexico, accompanied by her Airedale dog Matelot, who rode in a box fitted to the carrier. Starting with only $60 in her pocket, she covered 22,530 km (14,000 miles) over two years, working along the way as an office worker, apple picker and factory labourer to fund the trip. Her route included Nova Scotia, the Canadian Rockies, the Pacific coast, Mexico and the eastern seaboard up to New York. She is described as "the queen of long-distance Bantamites" by Peter Henshaw in The BSA Bantam Bible. She recounted her journey in Gasoline Gypsy, published in the United States in 1953 and in the UK in 1954 as A Ride in the Sun
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Gasoline Gypsy
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Thomas, Peggy Iris. Gasoline Gypsy; A Ride in the Sun. London: Travel Book Club, 1954.
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- Description: Peter Root and Mary Thompson set off from Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, in 2011, planning to cycle around the world. After traveling the roads of Europe, the Middle East, and China, they were struck and killed instantly by a pickup truck in Thailand on February 13, 2013
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- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/18/british-cyclists-killed-thailand
- Multimedia: https://vimeo.com/twoonfourwheels
We are Mary Thompson and Peter Root. At 5.00pm on the 12th July 2011 we got the boat to France with loads of stuff and two bikes. We’ve created this website to document our adventures along the way.
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- Description: Rob Thompson took his skateboard and equipped it with a trailer to carry essentials. He departed from Leysin, Switzerland, on June 25, 2007, and arrived in Shanghai on September 28, 2008, covering 12'000 kilometers. In his blog, he recounts this incredible adventure, which began a few years earlier with a similar journey but on a bicycle
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Others, Altri, Autres
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: -
- Internet: http://www.14degrees.org
I sat down one day and jotted down some thoughts on why exactly I want to do this. Usually I wouldn’t feel a need to justify myself, but, I mean come on, around the world by recumbent bicycle and skateboard?
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- Description: On 17 March 1999 Kevin Thomson departed Vancouver, British Columbia, pulling a self-built running cart he named "RoadRunner", with the goal of crossing Canada on foot from coast to coast to deliver greetings to the 50,000 Canadians gathered in St. John's, Newfoundland, to celebrate the new millennium. He completed the run on 31 December 1999, covering approximately 8,000 km in just over nine months. The journey was self-supported and undertaken without charitable sponsorship
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Coyote Kevin
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Canada
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, À pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
- Internet: https://kevinthomson.com
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- Description: Born on 12 October 1948 in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Jūgatsu Toi (戸井 十月) was a Japanese travel writer and visual producer. He obtained his motorcycle licence at the age of 32 while reporting on the bōsōzoku (Japanese motorcycle gangs) and subsequently began riding abroad. Between 1997 and November 2009 he completed a motorcycle journey across five continents - Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania - covering more than 120,000 km on a Honda XRV750 Africa Twin and a Honda NX650 Dominator, concluding at the Honda headquarters in Aoyama, Tokyo. Over his lifetime he covered more than 250,000 km across more than 50 countries. He also holds the record for the most entries by a Japanese rider in the Baja 1000 off-road race in Baja California, Mexico
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Japan, Giappone, Japon
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1948–2013
- 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/J%C5%ABgatsu_Toi
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11496208
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- Description: Barbara Toy was an Australian-British travel writer, theatrical director, playwright and screenwriter. After managing the Richmond Theatre in London and driving an ambulance during the Blitz, her life changed in 1950 when a colleague bet her she could not drive to Baghdad. She immediately purchased a second-hand 1950 Land Rover Series I 80" soft-top, which she named "Pollyanna", and set off. A brigadier she met in Gibraltar called her a "fool on wheels" - the title of her first book. She drove east across North Africa - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt - then by ship to Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq, winning the bet. She is recognised as one of the first people, and the first woman, to pioneer long-distance solo overland expeditions by Land Rover, predating the celebrated six-man Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition by nearly five years. Her subsequent journeys covered Libya (1952), Saudi Arabia (1953) - where she became one of the first women permitted to travel solo in the country, receiving gifts from King Abdulaziz - and a round-the-world journey (1956-57) through Turkey, Pakistan, Asia, Australia and the United States, recounted in Columbus Was Right! (1958). In 1959 she drove from Libya through the Sahara, the Congo and Ethiopia in search of the Queen of Sheba. By 1959, Pollyanna had covered over 210,000 miles. In 1990, aged 82, she completed a second round-the-world journey in the original Pollyanna, arriving home just before Christmas
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Australia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1908-2001
- 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Toy
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15995547
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Toy, Barbara. A Fool on Wheels: Tangier to Baghdad by Land Rover. London: John Murray, 1955.
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- Description: Participants in the Trans-Europe Foot Race race across various routes of the Old Continent. In 2003, the route included crossing the continent from Lisbon to Moscow; in 2009, from Bari to the North Cape; while in 2012, from Denmark to Gibraltar
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Internet: http://www.transeurope-footrace.org
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1773794