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- Description: Karl Kron, a 19th-century bicycle travel pioneer, is famous for his daring adventures and detailed travel accounts. Having traveled thousands of miles across America and Europe, Kron documented his experiences in works like "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle", offering an unprecedented insight into bicycle travel and the cultures encountered along the way. His narratives, rich with details about the challenges and joys of traveling on two wheels, have inspired generations of cycle tourists and adventurers
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
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- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: -
- Internet: https://archive.org/details/tenthousandmiles00kron
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Kron K., Ten thousand miles on a bicycle, Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, 1887.
This is a book of American roads, for men who travel on the bicycle. Its ideal is that of a gazetteer, a dictionary, a cyclopaedia, a statistical guide, a thesaurus of facts. The elaborateness of its indexing shows that it is designed less for reading than for reference, - less for amusement than for instruction, - and debars any one from objecting to the multiplicity of its details.
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- Description: The Kröttlinger family, from Vienna, embarked on an extraordinary journey around the world in 1926. Their adventure, captivating and unique, was undertaken with a small wagon, which even accommodated a young child
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Austria
- 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: 1926 Wir reisen zu Fuss um die Welt, Familie Kröttlinger aus Wien (ein Taubstummer)
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- Description: According to an article published in Giornale del Popolo on December 1, 1932, Antonio Kundiger was a German traveller who undertook journeys on foot, by bicycle, and later by motorcycle. The same source reports that his most recent raid was from Paris to Tokyo, covering about 55,000 km (34,200 miles) across the Balkans, Turkey, Syria, Persia, India, Indochina, and China. The newspaper also noted that from his travels he had assembled a collection of autographs in twenty volumes, including signatures of rulers, politicians, writers, artists, and industrialists
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- 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
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Giornale del Popolo, December 1, 1932.
Un globe-trotter eccezionale - Si trova da due giorni nella nostra città il germanico Antonio Kundiger, che è stato protagonista di viaggi veramente eccezionali attraverso i vari continenti, dapprima a piedi, poi in bicicletta o da ultimo in motocicletta.
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- Description: In his postcard, the Saxon Bruno Kunz declares he is engaged in a world tour
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Rund um die Welt Sachsen
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- Description: Lyuba Kutincheva was a Bulgarian traveller, journalist, photographer and polyglot who spoke at least seven languages including French, Romanian, Turkish, Russian, Arabic and Esperanto. Between 1929 and 1939 she travelled for almost a decade through the Middle East, Far East, North Africa and Europe, visiting Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, Egypt, Abyssinia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Persia, Afghanistan, Oman, India, Burma, Ceylon, Borneo, Sumatra, the Philippines, Formosa, Siam, China, Japan, Southern Sakhalin, Madagascar, Algeria, Spanish Morocco, Tunisia and Libya. She financed her travels partly by giving public lectures about Bulgarian culture and life, and partly through journalism for Western publications. She claimed to be the first European woman to visit Mecca, Medina, Yemen, Oman and Muscat, and the first European woman to cross the jungle on foot from Madras to Bangkok. She was photographed with numerous heads of state and rulers, including King Faisal I of Iraq, the Sultan of Muscat and the Maharajah of Baroda. Her archives - including detailed notes, photographs inscribed in Arabic, Hindi, Pashto, Japanese, Chinese and other languages, and a travelogue on Japan - were donated to the State Archives of Sofia in 1968. The exact purpose of her travels has never been established; her close contacts with Soviet diplomats have led to speculation about an intelligence role, which she never acknowledged. She published one book, Japan - Personal Impressions, Observations and Research (Stara Zagora, 1942)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Lyuba Kutincheva Dagorova
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Bulgaria
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1910-1998
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Vari, Divers
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Vari, Divers
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyuba_Kutincheva
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60442367
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Kutincheva, Lyuba. Japan - Personal Impressions, Observations and Research. Stara Zagora: Rodina Printing House, 1942.
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- Description: The Lagneaux family embarked on a round-the-world journey with a stroller and three children, showcasing their adventurous spirit and the challenges of traveling with young ones
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- 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: Die Reise um die Welt zu Fuss von Familie Lagneaux in 4 Jahren; Souvenir du globe trotter Lagneaux faisant le Tour du Monde à pied avec sa famille
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- Description: Egerton K. Laird authored Incidents of Travel in South Africa (1881), documenting approximately three months in the Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Natal, and Zululand. The narrative covers stops in cities like Kimberley, boat journeys on rivers, carriage excursions, and close observations of local communities and Zulu life. Though not widely remembered among 19th-century travel writers, Laird provides a noteworthy historical snapshot of the sociopolitical and ethnographic landscape of southern Africa just before the Second Boer War. In 1875 he also published The Rambles of a Globe Trotter, a vivid and detailed account of his journeys through Australasia, Japan, China, Java, India and Kashmir
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- 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
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76221724
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Laird, Egerton K., Incidents of Travel in South Africa: Being an Account of a Three Months’ Tour in the Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Natal and a Ride into Zululand, Birkenhead.
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- Description: Thomas Lamotte’s walk around the world: there is no evidence confirming the actual completion of the globetrotter’s journey
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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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Tour du monde à pied, globe trotter conférencier
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- Description: Blinded by the war, in his postcard, Lampérière claims to be engaged in a world tour
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Aveugle de guerre faisant le tour du monde, victime du devoir