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- Description: On the occasion of the 1939 World's Fair, Leland Abbott set out from The Pas, Manitoba, Canada, to reach New York by sled. He arrived in April 1939 after a journey of 3'800 miles
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Sledge, Slitta, Luge
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Sled Dog - Artic to New York - Leland Abbott - en route to New York (USA), 25.11.1938.
A Fort Garry couple are hot on the trail of two Manitoba dog mushers who travelled from the Arctic to New York City in 1938-39.
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- Description: The Abernathy brothers, Louis and Temple, are remembered for undertaking several solo "Ocean To Ocean" journeys starting from 1909 at the ages of 9 and 5. In 1911, they rode on horseback from New York to San Francisco in 62 days, setting a new speed record for that time. Their story was also brought to the screen in the film "The Ride" (2003), which tells the story of the two young explorers' adventures
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Abernathy Boys
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1900-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Internet: http://budandme.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6686586
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Abernathy A., Bud & me: the true adventures of the Abernathy boys, Dove Creek Press, 1998.
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- Description: The Abernathy brothers, Louis and Temple, are remembered for undertaking several solo "Ocean To Ocean" journeys starting from 1909 at the ages of 9 and 5. In 1911, they rode on horseback from New York to San Francisco in 62 days, setting a new speed record for that time. Their story was also brought to the screen in the film "The Ride" (2003), which tells the story of the two young explorers' adventures
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Abernathy Boys
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1904-1986
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Internet: http://budandme.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6686586
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Abernathy A., Bud & me: the true adventures of the Abernathy boys, Dove Creek Press, 1998
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- Description: Harriet Chalmers Adams was an American explorer, writer, and photographer, hailed as one of the most influential female travelers of her era. Raised in California, she began exploring the Sierra Nevada by horseback as a child. In 1900, she and her husband embarked on a three-year South American expedition, visiting every country and traversing the Andes, mostly on horseback. Between 1907 and 1935, she authored 21 National Geographic articles, richly illustrated with her own photographs, and became known for her engaging lectures featuring colored slides and films. In 1925 she helped establish the Society of Woman Geographers, serving as its first president until 1933. She traveled over 100,000 miles (160,000 km)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1875-1937
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Chalmers_Adams
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q670843
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- Description: William Francis Ainsworth was a British physician, geographer, and explorer active in the Near East during the mid-nineteenth century. He took part in the Euphrates Expedition (1835–1837), organized to assess the river’s navigability as a potential communication route between the Mediterranean and British India. Traveling through Anatolia and Mesopotamia, Ainsworth recorded geographical, geological, and archaeological observations later published in Researches in Assyria, Babylonia and Chaldaea (1838) and Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea and Armenia (1842). His work contributed to early Western knowledge of the region
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Ainsworth
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q977072
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Ainsworth, William Francis. Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea and Armenia. London: John W. Parker, 1842.
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- Description: 1'200-mile Walk from Seattle to San Francisco in 1915
- 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: Aitchley walking 1200 (?) miles will meet you in Frisco in 1915
Man, wife and dog hike afoot from Seattle
Special Dispatch to The Call
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- Description: In 1890, Thomas Gaskell Allen, accompanied by William Sachtleben, embarked on a round-the-world journey using a bicycle. They returned in 1893, having covered 15'000 miles, which at the time was the longest continuous trip ever undertaken. They compiled their adventures in the East into the volume Across Asia on a Bicycle
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -1868
- 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: Allen T., Sachtleben W., Across Asia on a bicycle: the journey of two American students from Constantinople to Peking, Inkling Books, 2003.
This volume is made up of a series of sketches describing the most interesting part of a bicycle journey around the world,—our ride across Asia. We were actuated by no desire to make a “record” in bicycle travel, although we covered 15,044 miles on the wheel, the longest continuous land journey ever made around the world.
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- Description: Lillian Alling was an Estonian immigrant who, in the late 1920s, decided to return to her homeland from New York, mainly on foot. Her story was fictionalized in the book titled 'Away'
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Estonia
- 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: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Alling
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6548079
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Bloom A., Away, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008. Rutstrum C., The new way of the wilderness: the classic guide to survival in the wild, University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
In the summer of 1927, Lillian Alling, a young Russian immigrant, homesick and compelled to perform menial tasks for a living in New York, made up her mind to go back to her homeland in Europe. Because she had no money for transportation, she decided to hike back to her native country. She tramped to Chicago, to Minneapolis, to Winnipeg, refusing all invitations to ride. She was next seen on the Yukon Telegraph Trail in the northern part of British Columbia, Canada, a small pack on her back and a length of iron pipe in her hand for protection, heading towards Alaska. The provincial police at Hazelton prevented her from making a winter journey through the Canadian wilds, but they were able to detain her only until spring.
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- Description: On 24 November 1919, aged 30, she departed Celje with only her portable typewriter "Erika", a ten-language dictionary she had compiled herself and $130. Over eight years she circumnavigated the globe alone, visiting more than 60 countries across South and North America, the Pacific Islands, Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and India, returning to Celje in January 1928 at the request of her dying mother. She financed the entire journey by teaching languages, translating for embassies, giving lectures and writing articles for European newspapers. She also collected over 840 ethnographic and artistic artefacts, now held at the Celje Regional Museum. Her three-volume travelogue Einsame Weltreise (1929-1933) sold over 80,000 copies and was reviewed by more than 100 newspapers worldwide including the New York Times. She published over 24 books in total
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Columbus' daughter
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Slovenia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1889-1950
- 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: http://www.almakarlin.si
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79131
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Karlin, Alma M. Einsame Weltreise (3 voll.). Wilhelm Köhler Verlag, 1929-1933.