- Description: Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on April 25, 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has since been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra", now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966, but various literary sources have also been suggested. Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. It is generally seen as a contender for the first English novel. Before the end of 1719, the book had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning numerous imitations in film, television and radio
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- Internet: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12623
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q483034
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Defoe D., Robinson Crusoe. Hertford, Wordsworth Classics, 1993.
- Description: On August 1, 1999, Polly Letofsky left Colorado (USA) to embark on a 5-year journey around the world. She returned home on July 30, 2004, after walking 22'730 kilometers (14'124 miles) and raising $250'000 for cancer research. Polly became the first woman to officially walk around the world
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- 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: http://www.pollyletofsky.com
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Letofsky Polly, 3mph: The Adventures of One Woman's Walk Around the World, Globalwalk Press, 2013.
- Description: The two young men from New York tackled the classic trans-American journey on their roller skates
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Roller skates, Pattini, Patins
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: New York to San Francisco on rollers
- Description: In 1885, he claimed to have traveled the roads of the United States with a piglet following a bet
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
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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: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: P. B. Lespinasse, of Spring Valley, Rockland County, N. Y., having made and lost a wager with a neighbouring farmer on the recent Presidential election, will walk from New York City to Washington D.C., carrying a live pig and rooster. Will start about the first of February from Madison Square, New York City, and arrive in Washington on the eve of March 3d. As a means of defraying the expense of himself and the winner, will dispose of these photographs to democrats and republicans. In fulfilling the above wager, the loser will redeem the amount lost on his return to Rockland County
- Description: Gottfried Rodrigues left Amsterdam in 1909 for a journey 'Around The World On A Wager.' Without luggage and money, he traveled through Europe, the United States, Japan, China, and Siberia
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- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Around The World On A Wager
Gottfried Rodrigues, a joung adventurous newspaper man from Holland, the land of wooden shoes and windmills, arrived tonight in Ogden on his way to New York, from where, after duo training, he will endeavor to reach the Golden Gate city on the shores of the Pacific in record smashing time.
- Description: Bicycle tour around the world at the end of the nineteenth century
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- 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: USA
- Internet: https://www.thewheelmen.com/sections/americanjourneys/shiningsea/rogers.php
The Rogers brothers from Millbury, Massachusetts made an interesting 4000-mile bicycle ride to the Pacific coast in the summer of 1890, but it is not known what type of wheels they rode. It seems likely that they used some type of ordinary for the 1890 chain driven safeties were not yet well suited to long rides. If the brothers had arrived in Portland, Oregon on safeties, the newspaper correspondent covering their arrival would likely have commented on the this unusual fact rather than simply noting that "the wheels ridden are still in good condition."
- Description: At only nineteen years old, the enigmatic Dora Rodrigues embarked on a walking journey around the world. She claimed to be the daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant from Amsterdam and reported that she had crossed every country in Europe on foot, as well as Egypt, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, and the United States. In 1912, American newspapers published article after article about the courageous and attractive young woman who supposedly carried “a .38-caliber revolver in true Western style”. Curiously, in the preceding years, no European newspaper made any mention of her supposed trek across Europe, leaving significant doubts about the authenticity of her story
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- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://globetrottermanie.nl
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Greeting from Miss Dora Rodrigues the girl from Holland on her trip around the world
- Description: In a commemorative postcard, Massimo Leuret claimed to be undertaking a 60,000-kilometer (37,282 miles) journey around the world. According to Libera Stampa (January 7, 1921), he departed from Geneva on January 1, 1914, cycling across Germany, Russia, Siberia, Japan, and later through the South American republics. He reached France at Le Havre on November 30, 1920. The journey took place under the auspices of the Swiss Touring Club, which stipulated that he could only travel on foot or by bicycle across the continents. During the Atlantic crossing from New York to Le Havre, he worked for the Compagnie Transatlantique to finance his passage. Upon his arrival in Nice, he expected to be back in Geneva within six weeks, thereby completing a world tour that lasted seven years and covered 60,000 km (37,282 miles)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Max Leuret
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Switzerland, Svizzera, Suisse
- 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
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Libera Stampa, January 7, 1921.
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Le tour du monde (60.000 kilomètres) itinéraire: Genève, berne, Berlin, Moscow, Wladivostok, Tokio, Kobe, Panama, Valparaiso, Buenos-Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Caracas, Tampa, New-York, Québec, Le Havre, Marseille. J'offre cette carte à votre bonne volonté. Max Leuret und Frau (Schweizer Globe-trotter) Rund um die Welt zu Fuss 40.000 km. Kontroll-Buch wird auf Wunsch vorgelegt
Il giro del mondo in bicicletta. Nizza, 6. - Il globe-trotter Massimo Leurct, svizzero, è arrivato a Nizza. Egli compì il giro del mondo in bicicletta.
- Description: From Hanover to Shanghai in 1913
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Wissenschaftliche Studienreise des Deutschen Weltwanderes Louis H. Rohmeyer des Sportsclub Hannover begonnen 5.11.11 1911-1915
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