Toti Enrico (w1913)

  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, tricycle, Bicicletta, triciclo, Vélo, tricycle
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
  • Internet: Visit Website
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Train George Francis (w2713)

  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1829-1904
  • 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: Visit Website
  • Wikidata: Visit Website
  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Scatamacchia C., Nellie Bly: Un'avventurosa giornalista e viaggiatrice americana dell'Ottocento, Perugia : Morlacchi Editore, 2002.

George Francis Train (1829-1904), merchant and entrepreneur, was born on 24 March 1829 at Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, son of Oliver Train and his wife Maria, née Pickering. His parents and three sisters died in a yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans in 1833 and he was raised in Waltham, Massachusetts, by his maternal grandparents, who were staunch Methodists.

Trans-Europe Foot Race (w2714)

  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
  • 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: Europe, Europa
  • Internet: Visit Website
  • Wikidata: Visit Website

Transcontinental Race (w2715)

  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
  • Internet: Visit Website
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Ford Car No.2 is First in long contest. Finishes Transcontinental Race at Seattle in Presence of 15'000 Spectators

Trevor Thomas (w2718)

  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Zero/Zero
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
  • 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
  • Internet: Visit Website

Trogdon William (w2721)

  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Least Heat-Moon William
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1939-
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
  • Internet: Visit Website
  • Wikidata: Visit Website
  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Least Heat-Moon W., Nikawa : diario di bordo di una navigazione attraverso l’America, Torino : Einaudi, 2002.

Tschiffely Aimé Félix (w2722)

  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Switzerland, Svizzera, Suisse
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1895-1954
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On horseback, A cavallo, A cheval
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
  • Internet: Visit Website
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  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Aimé Félix Tschiffely. 1933. Tschiffely's Ride.

A. F. Tschiffely was born into an old Swiss family in Bern in 1895 where he was educated and became a teacher. An adventurer at heart, he left Switzerland to teach in England in his early 20s, but found a new passion as a professional footballer and boxer. He then moved to Buenos Aires where he settled into teaching again, at St. George's College, Quilmes, and later as the temporary headmaster of the Buenos Aires English High School, but still found time on long vacations for adventures riding horses and exploring the surrounding pampas.

Turnell, Mcardle, Guerin (w2726)

  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, tricycle, Bicicletta, triciclo, Vélo, tricycle
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
  • Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Coast to Coast - On Juli 5, 1939, we left Newark, N. J., to visit the World's Fair in San Francisco, California, other interesting points of America, also Mexico. We are going through New Jersey, Penn., Maryland, Dist. of Columbia, Virginia, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisianna, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, W. Virginia, Penn. and then home, sweet home, Newark, N. J.

Turot Henri (w2045)

  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
  • 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
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Gaston Stiegler journaliste au Matin, parti de Paris le 29 mai 1901 à 01h50 du soir, put abaisser le record de Phileas Fogg à 63 jours et 16 heures. Il fut plus heureux que son adversaire Henri Turot, parti dans l'autre sens. Toutefois, comme le fit remarquer Jules Verne, "aujourd'hui ce n'est plus une affaire de tourner ainsi, commodément installé dans un wagon, autour du monde".

Urman Stanys (w2727)

  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Latvia, Lettonia, Lettonie
  • 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

Stanys Urman il podista lituano, già campione del mondo di marcia, dopo avere sofferto la prigionia in Russia ed avere combattuto su moltissimi fronti, s'è messo a fare il giro del mondo a piedi.

Vache (w2730)

  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: France, Francia
  • Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Tour de France, 1922, 3700 kilomètres - Vache, sur motocyclette Indian et pneus Hutchinson

Vaillancourt Fred E. (w2731)

  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Wagon, cart, Carro, carretto, Char, Chariot
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
  • Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Sustained loss of both legs at West Paris, Maine, August 14, 1907, while employed as brakeman on the Grand Trunk Railway System

Valerian Johannes Piecynski (w2764)

  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Wanderwell Walter
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
  • 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
  • Internet: Visit Website
  • Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Wanderwell world tour 175,000 miles around the world - for the world

The female Indiana Jones! Fascinating images capture the adventures of a 1920s traveller who visited 80 countries... in a Model T Ford.

Van Buren Augusta & Adeline (w2733)

  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Van Buren sisters
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
  • Internet: Visit Website
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The sisters descended from Martin Van Buren, the eighth President of the United States. In 1916, 24-year-old Augusta and 22-year-old Adeline Van Buren, or Gussie and Addie as they were known, were in their 20s and active in the national Preparedness Movement. America was about to enter World War I, and the sisters wanted to prove that women could ride as well as men and would be able to serve as military dispatch riders, freeing up men for other tasks.