Roskolenko Harry (w3427)
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- Description: In the mid-1950s, departing from Genoa on a Vespa - initially a three-wheeled model, which he exchanged for a solo scooter on reaching Iran - he completed a 15-month round-the-world journey covering 59,500 km (37,000 miles) in total, of which 33,800 km (21,000 miles) were ridden on the scooter. His route went through Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Ceylon, before he boarded a ship to Australia and then crossed the United States to New York. The journey was sponsored in part by Piaggio and several other companies. He recounted it in Poet on a Scooter, published by Dial Press in 1958
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Jean de Ballard, Rollin Coss, H.R. Rose
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Vespa
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b776143
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94407284
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Roskolenko, Harry. Poet on a Scooter. New York: Dial Press, 1958.
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