![]() ![]() Peter Mundy – a seventeenth-century British merchant trader, traveller and writer.He crossed each continent (other than Antarctica) twice, traveling between the most distant points of each continent in both latitude and longitude. Vladimir Lysenko – Between September 19, Lysenko crossed 62 countries by car.Lyuba Kutincheva (1910–1998), a female Bulgarian traveler and polyglot who traveled for almost a decade (1929–1938) through the Middle East, Far East, northern Africa and Europe.Krasko is a member of the Union of the Russian Around-the-World Travelers. Vyacheslav Krasko – a Russian traveler, manager and professional financier with a PhD Economics.Waclaw Korabiewicz – a Polish reporter, poet, traveler, collector of ethnographic exhibits.She wrote her own dictionary of 10 languages which helped her on her travel around the world. She mastered 10 languages and she obtained a degree of excellence from 8 foreign languages at Society of Arts in London. She started her travel in 24 November 1919 and finished it in January 1928, earning all the money by herself while traveling, by publishing travelogues in newspapers, publishing numerous books (might be more than 22 books published altogether), teaching languages to people, traducing and so on. Alma Maximiliana Karlin – an Austro-Hungarian – Yugoslavian (now Slovene) traveler from Celje, writer, poet, ethnographer, collector, polyglot and theosophist who travelled the world for 8 years.Martin and Osa Johnson – American adventurers and documentary filmmakers.He had an elapsed time of 35 days, 21 hours, 35 minutes, 18 and four-fifths seconds. On 2 July 1913, he left New York City on the RMS Mauretania, then traveled by a combination of steamers, yachts, and trains to circumnavigate the Earth and reach New York City again on 6 August 1913. John Henry Mears – set the record for the fastest trip around the world both in 19.His travelogue La vita: & sito de Zichi, chiamiti ciarcassi: historia notabile was among the first European accounts of the life and customs of the Circassian people. Giorgio Interiano – a Genovese traveler, historian and ethnographer.Gunther Holtorf – a German traveler who, often in company of his wife Christine, journeyed across the world in his G-Wagen Mercedes Benz named "Otto", visiting 179 countries in 26 years.She attracted a lot of attention from her contemporaries by her journeys. Margaretha Heijkenskjöld – a Swedish traveler and a dress reformer.Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay – a British journalist who was the first woman to travel around the world by air, in a Zeppelin.Susan Hale – an American author, traveler and artist.Guido Guerrini – first person to go from Europe to China covering the whole route by a gas-fuelled car.Sascha Grabow – a German author, traveler, photographer and former ATP tennis player.Her long journey, from western Peru to the mouth of the Amazon River, is without equal in the history of South America. Isabel Godin des Odonais – an 18th-century woman who became separated from her husband in South America by colonial politics, and was not reunited with him until more than 20 years later.Rose de Freycinet – a Frenchwoman who, in the company of her husband, Louis de Freycinet, sailed around the world between 18 on a French scientific expedition on a military ship, initially disguised as a man.Amelia Earhart – first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airplane.She was the first woman to have crossed the Sahara desert by car. Eva Dickson – a Swedish explorer, rally driver, aviator and travel writer.Zechariah Dhahiri – wrote extensively about his travels and experiences in many travel places, publishing them in a book which he called, Sefer Ha-Mūsar (The Book of Moral Instruction).Renata Chlumska – an adventurer and mountain climber with dual Swedish and Czech citizenship, she became the first Swedish and Czech woman to climb Mount Everest. Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch – a Serbian artist and writer on art, world traveller, and member of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty.Nellie Bly – widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days.Nancy Bird Walton – a pioneering Australian aviator, and was the founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots' Association.With his broad education and vast knowledge of languages, Benjamin of Tudela is a major figure in medieval geography and Jewish history. His vivid descriptions of western Asia preceded those of Marco Polo by a hundred years. Benjamin of Tudela – a medieval Jewish traveler who visited Europe, Asia, and Africa in the 12th century.Benjamin of Tudela in the Sahara ( Author : Dumouza, 19th-century engraving) ![]()
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