Annie Londonderry's amazing bike trip around the world

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Annie Londonderry's amazing bike trip around the world

par Oyez Oyez » Jeu Fév 14, 2008 9:30 am

P>[img:332:400]http://www.bikingbis.com/_photos/bikeDrawing.sized.jpg[/img]If you're familiar with the world of bicycle touring, you probably already know that the first cyclist to pedal around the world was Tom Stevens, who left San Francisco on a penny farthing in 1884.

But who was the first woman to accomplish the feat?

Let me introduce you to Annie Londonderry, a Bostonian in her early 20s who undertook the journey 10 years later in 1894. Credited with accomplishing the bicycle journey by Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and countless other newspapers at the time, her story is one of high adventure and extreme risk for a woman travelling alone in the late 19th century.

Her stories involve run-ins with bandits, nights spent sleeping in barns or open fields, visiting the front of the China-Japan war where she was wounded and taken prisoner, accidents out on the road, and tiger hunts in the jungle from atop an elephant. She did it all to win a bet that a woman could bicycle around the world. ...

Author: Gene Bisbee
Category: Main Page Bike Touring
Publish Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:00:00 -0800



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par BOX » Jeu Fév 14, 2008 10:06 am

Anyone who spends enough time of FixedGearGallery will know this because it comes up every now and again.
here is another fun link.
http://www.annielondonderry.com/

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par Deyv » Jeu Fév 14, 2008 10:11 am

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par BOX » Jeu Fév 14, 2008 10:36 am

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par Deyv » Ven Fév 15, 2008 9:32 am

Imagine that you're a writer with a growing appetite for riding your bicycle.

Then consider that a researcher who had contacted your mother years earlier about your great-grandfather's sister -- no one in the immediate family had ever heard of her -- gets back in touch and asks if you had learned anything more about her.

Oh, and by way, that great-grandaunt had bicycled around the world more than 100 years ago.

There you have the circumstances that launched Peter Zheutlin on his quest to research and write a book about Annie Kopchovsky (aka Annie Londonderry): "Around the World on Two Wheels, Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride."

His pursuit of Annie Londonderry's story across time is full of as many twists and turns as Annie's solo bike ride in 1894 and 1895. And just as Annie started her journey with big dreams but little knowledge of bicycling, Zheutlin started with a virtually blank slate about his once famous relative. ...

Author: Gene Bisbee
Category: Main Page Bike Touring
Publish Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:00:00 -0800



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