- Description: The writer Karl Heinrich Rohwedder, accompanied by his wife, claims to be engaged in a worldwide study tour
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Lo scrittore Karl Heinrich Rohwedder e Signora in Sevilla (Spagna) durante il giro del mondo in viaggio di studio. Il prezzo è volontario!
- Description: Roode walked the routes Amsterdam-Paris and Amsterdam-Rome on foot
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Netherlands, Olanda, Hollande
- 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: De Wandelaar met zijn blok van Amsterdam naar Parijs. Tweede reis van Amsterdam naar Rome en terug met een block nan zijn been
- Description: Overland Jack of Big Sandy, Texas, born John Rose, traveled 30'000 miles from 1909 until the 1930s aboard a cart pulled by five goats. He lost his legs in a train accident. Numerous postcards depicting him have survived to this day
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Overland Jack
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1888-1962
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Wagon, Carro, Char
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: This Texas Goat Wagon has been over the states of Tex., N. Mex., Colo., Kan., Mo., Ill., Ind., Ky., Tenn., Ala., Miss., Lo. Ark., Okla., Nedr., Wyo., Mont., S. Dak. and Ariz., a distance of 30'000 miles since 1909. the team was trained by Overland Jack of Big Sandy, Tex., owner and driver. The average weight of each goat being 100 lbs. the harness was manufactured at Big Sandy, Texas, costing $30.00. This team on a test pulled 2.500 lbs. The team averages 10 miles per day with 600 lb. camping outfit. Each goat is fed 2 quarts of grain per day. The wagon was manufactured at Gilmer, Texas, costing $80.00. The team cost $25.00 . Price of pictures 10c each, 3 for 25c. No trouble to answer questions
That buyers are plentiful is shown by the fact that he owns two farms and has a respectable bank account." (...) "He has proved that a man can make his way in the world without even a leg to stand on.
Popular science, 1922
- Description: Heinz Rox-Schulz was dubbed by "Der Spiegel" as the "König der Globetrotter", the king of globetrotters. This was thanks to the travels he embarked on from the early fifties of the twentieth century. He documented his feats with videos and books; among the most significant, "Ohne Geld um die Welt" published in 1956. In the seventies, he founded the Abenteuer Museum
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Rox
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1921-2004
- 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://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Rox-Schulz
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1600839
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Rox-Schulz H., Ohne Geld um die Welt, Bertelsmann, 1956.
- Description: On March 31, 1928, Franz Romer set off solo from Lisbon with the intention of crossing the Atlantic in a kayak. The twenty-nine-year-old German traveled for 4'000 miles over 58 days before reaching the island of Puerto Rico. After six weeks of recovery, he set sail again to reach New York. He was declared missing following a hurricane that caused him to disappear without a trace
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1899-1928
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Canoa, Kayak
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Atlantic Ocean, Atlantico, Atlantique
- Internet: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Romer_(Kapit%C3%A4n)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1448760
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Willi Münch-Khe, Kapitän Romer bezwingt den Atlantik. Ein Tatsachenbericht. Potsdam, 1942.
- Description: Peter Root and Mary Thompson set off from Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, in 2011, with plans to cycle around the world. After traveling through the roads of Europe, the Middle East, and China, they were struck by a pickup truck on February 13, 2013, in Thailand, and were killed instantly. Their blog 'Two on Four Wheels' collects the final testimonies of the unfortunate couple
- 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: 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.
- Description: Travels in France of a One-Legged Globetrotter
- 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: De Marseille à Paris à pied, voyage entrepris par 2 unijambistes, délégués du syndicat des Estropiés Français
- Description: Dario Rucco, a Milanese entrepreneur, decided in 2002 to change his life and embarked on a six-month journey that took him from Tierra del Fuego in South America to Alaska. The means of transportation used were, wherever possible, public land and sea transport
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- 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
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Rucco D., Da capo a capo : dalla Terra del Fuoco in Alaska in autobus, Greco&Greco, 2005.
- Description: Arthur Siegfried Romminger jun. is described in the postcard as the smallest of the globetrotters. He finished his first year of life on June 11, 1910, started walking on June 12, 1910, and on the same day, along with his parents, embarked on a world tour without money, and plans to have completed it by the age of 6
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Arthur Siegfried Romminger jun. der kleinste Globetrotter. Beendete am 11 Juni 1910 sein erstes Lebensjahr, fing am 12 Juni 1910 an zu laufen und begab sich am selben Tage in Begleitung seiner Schwester Erika, 3 Jahe alt, nebst Eltern, auf die Reise um die Welt ohne Geld, und gedenkt er dieselbe im Alter von 6 Jahren beendet zu haben
- Description: A journey of 67'000 miles in 1947-48 by bicycle and on foot
- 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: -
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Rosdail J. H., Biking alone around the world, Hicksville, Exposition Press, 1973.
- Description: Josef Rottensteiner and an unnamed friend embarked on a journey through Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Switzerland, and Italy: "We are Viennese students and travel in a car we built ourselves. We have already covered 18,000 kilometers in 20 months. We thank the kind donors"
- 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: Europe, Europa
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Ricordo - Senza motore per acqua e terra attraverso tre continenti: Europa, Africa, Asia
- Description: Italian journalist and writer Paolo Rumiz has turned travel into a narrative tool for exploring the identities, borders, and memories of Europe and the Mediterranean. His journeys, often undertaken by slow and marginal means – bicycle, local trains, vintage cars, ferries – focus on observation and listening to peripheral voices. From the post-Yugoslav Balkans to the Central European Danube, from Italian mountain ranges to the eastern borders of the European Union, Rumiz has crafted a personal geography grounded in encounter and storytelling
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1947-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Rumiz
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1236933
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Rumiz, P. (2002) Tre uomini in bicicletta. Milano: Feltrinelli.
Ciascuno ha le sue spiegazioni per la malattia insana dell'andar su ruote, perché infinite sono le esperienze alternative che la bici riesce a sintetizzare. C'é il viaggio come leggerezza, come nomadismo esistenziale ed eliminazione del superfluo, raccontato per esempio da Marco Aime nell'attraversamento del Sahel. Ci sono la lentezza e la memoria, descritte da Giulio Mozzi, scrittore padovano che ha percorso l'Italia a piedi. Ci sono la fuga e la solitudine negli elementi, come ha saputo dire quel lupo solitario che è lo skipper Paolo Rizzi dopo un naufragio in mezzo all'Atlantico. O il viaggio come introspezione, il pellegrinaggio talvolta penitenziale di Werner Herzog e Peter Handke.
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