On September 6, 1911, Hermann Hesse boards the "Prinz Eitel Friedrich" in Genoa in the company of his friend, the painter Hans Sturzenegger, to travel to India, the country in which his grandparents, his father and his mother worked as missionaries. In actual fact, however, it turns out to be a trip not to India but to Indonesia: Penang, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, and Burma.

Le 29 mai 1901 à 1 h 50, Gaston Stiegler, homme de lettres et journaliste, s'embarquait dans le train de Russie à la gare du Nord. Le 30 au matin, il arrivait à Berlin, le 31 à Saint-Pétersbourg, le 1er juin à Moscou, le 3 juin à Samara.

Walter Stolle's Bicycle Saga, or Around the World in 18 Years. When he was a teenager, Walter Stolle got a crazy idea. “I decided,” he recalls, “that I would make the longest journey ever on a bike.” He did. It covered 400,000 miles—the equivalent of 16 trips around the world—took him to 159 countries and lasted 18 years.