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Hosmer Dorothy (w2060)

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  • Description: Dorothy Hosmer, born in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, in 1936, embarked on a journey to Europe aboard the SS President Roosevelt. Her spontaneous decision to cycle from Geneva to Trieste led her to experience adventures across Europe, which she documented in National Geographic Magazine
  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1910-2008
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: -
  • Internet: https://www.crazyguyonabike.com
  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Hosmer D., “Pedaling through Poland: An American girl free-wheels alone from Krakow and its medieval byways, towards Ukraine’s restive borderland”, National Geographic, giugno 1939.
Dorothy Hosmer (https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?doc_id=21735)
Precursori, Forerunners, Précurseurs
Viaggi stravaganti, Weird travels, Voyages insolites
Globetrotter contemporanei, Contemporary globetrotters, Globetrotteurs contemporains
Personaggi fittizi, Fictional character, Personnages de fiction

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