- 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: Roberto Regini is a "homeless man" passionate about trekking. He has had the fortune to engage in this activity on all five continents
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- 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
- Internet: https://thinkingnomads.com/author/roberto-regini/
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Cavalleri F., Zaino in spalla e via, Roberto Regini: l’uomo senza casa ci racconta il suo mondo di viaggi, La Regione Ticino, 11.07.2013.
Quarantanove giorni di cammino in tre regioni, Terra del Fuoco, Aysén e Patagonia, per un totale di 700-800 chilometri in solitaria e 3.100 euro di spesa complessiva. Roberto Regini (41 anni), l’intrepido viaggiatore originario di Empoli che ha deciso di dedicare buona parte della sua vita a “esplorare” il mondo, è appena rientrato dalla sua ultima avventura con lo zaino in spalla (www.robyexplorer.net). “Sono partito lo scorso 31 gennaio, scegliendo come al solito un periodo fuori stagione per evitare i grandi afflussi turistici, le spese elevate e soprattutto per avere l’occasione di vivere più intensamente i luoghi che attraversavo”.
- Description: Enrico Kuff embarked on the endeavor of walking around the world in 1954. By 1959, he had traveled 68'180 kilometers
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Description: In 1912, Carl Kron traveled the route from Los Angeles to Boston with Philip E. Campbell, covering 5'000 miles from coast to coast for a bet of $1'000. Along with T. P. Orchard, he set off from Santa Cruz, California, to Atlantic City, New Jersey, walking a total of 10'000 miles. According to the postcard, they held the world record for the 100 miles with a time of 21 hours and 56 minutes
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- 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: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: The hikers, walking 10,000 miles from Santa Cruz, Cal., to Atlantic City, N. J., and return. World's champion long distance walkers, holders of world's record for 100 miles, time 21 hrs. and 56 min
Boston Lads start on Cross Continent Tramp. Young Men to Set Out From Los Angeles on Wager.
- Description: Christoph Rehage traveled 3,000 miles starting from Beijing (China) with the goal of reaching Bad Nenndorf, Germany, on foot. After a year of walking, he decided to give up and return to his studies
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- 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: Various, Diversi, Différents
- 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: Karl Kron, a 19th-century bicycle travel pioneer, is famous for his daring adventures and detailed travel accounts. Having traveled thousands of miles across America and Europe, Kron documented his experiences in works like "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle", offering an unprecedented insight into bicycle travel and the cultures encountered along the way. His narratives, rich with details about the challenges and joys of traveling on two wheels, have inspired generations of cycle tourists and adventurers
- 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: -
- Internet: https://archive.org/details/tenthousandmiles00kron
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Kron K., Ten thousand miles on a bicycle, Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, 1887.
This is a book of American roads, for men who travel on the bicycle. Its ideal is that of a gazetteer, a dictionary, a cyclopaedia, a statistical guide, a thesaurus of facts. The elaborateness of its indexing shows that it is designed less for reading than for reference, - less for amusement than for instruction, - and debars any one from objecting to the multiplicity of its details.
- Description: The Kröttlinger family, from Vienna, embarked on an extraordinary journey around the world in 1926. Their adventure, captivating and unique, was undertaken with a small wagon, which even accommodated a young child
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Austria
- 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: 1926 Wir reisen zu Fuss um die Welt, Familie Kröttlinger aus Wien (ein Taubstummer)
- Description: The brothers Dave and John Kunst were the first people to officially undertake a walk around the world. The adventure began on June 20, 1970, from Waseca and ended on October 5, 1974. Only Dave completed the 14'500-mile journey: his brother John was fatally shot by a gang of bandits in Afghanistan. Their other brother, Pete, joined Dave from the point where John was killed
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Earthwalkers
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- 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
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Kunst
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5229138
Minnesotan's around-the-world walk remembered, 30 years later. It took four years, 21 million steps and 22 pairs of leather shoes for Dave Kunst to complete his record-making and tragedy-marred 14,450-mile walk around the Earth in 1974.
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| Globetrotter contemporanei, Contemporary globetrotters, Globetrotteurs contemporains |
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