Comments on: Riding back to where you started, without turning left or right http://www.dirtragmag.com/blogarific/406/ Dirt Rag Staff Blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:05:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Weekend Links | les lanternes rouges http://www.dirtragmag.com/blogarific/406/#comment-864 Weekend Links | les lanternes rouges Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:36:15 +0000 http://www.dirtragmag.com/blogarific/406/#comment-864 [...] paar Links, die wir in den letzten Tagen gesammelt haben. Nur für euch, na klar. Der Dirt Rag Blog stellt ein neues Buch über Annie “Londonderry” Kopchovsky vor, die sich 1894 auf einem 20-Kilo-Fahrrad aufmachte, die USA zu durchqueren. Oder sollten wir [...] […] paar Links, die wir in den letzten Tagen gesammelt haben. Nur für euch, na klar. Der Dirt Rag Blog stellt ein neues Buch über Annie “Londonderry” Kopchovsky vor, die sich 1894 auf einem 20-Kilo-Fahrrad aufmachte, die USA zu durchqueren. Oder sollten wir […]

]]> By: Pinchie http://www.dirtragmag.com/blogarific/406/#comment-860 Pinchie Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:39:33 +0000 http://www.dirtragmag.com/blogarific/406/#comment-860 Thanks for the clarificaton, PZ! I look forward to reading this book. -- Pinchie Thanks for the clarificaton, PZ! I look forward to reading this book. — Pinchie

]]> By: pzheutlin http://www.dirtragmag.com/blogarific/406/#comment-859 pzheutlin Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:03:38 +0000 http://www.dirtragmag.com/blogarific/406/#comment-859 I am the author of the new book about Annie "Londonderry" Kopchovsky and her great-grandnephew. Thanks to Pinchie for this post. For those interested, the book is called "Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride." It's available from Amazon.com and many other online and bricks and mortar retailers. One small correction, though. Nellie Bly did not travel around the world by bicycle. In 1889, Bly, a famous journalist, proposed to her publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, that she could get around the world in less than 80 days as a publicity stunt for the The New York World. She traveled by train, boat, and carriage but not by bicycle. The first person to circle the globe by bicycle was Thomas Stevens who made the trip between 1884-6. I am the author of the new book about Annie “Londonderry” Kopchovsky and her great-grandnephew. Thanks to Pinchie for this post. For those interested, the book is called “Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride.” It’s available from Amazon.com and many other online and bricks and mortar retailers.

One small correction, though. Nellie Bly did not travel around the world by bicycle. In 1889, Bly, a famous journalist, proposed to her publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, that she could get around the world in less than 80 days as a publicity stunt for the The New York World. She traveled by train, boat, and carriage but not by bicycle. The first person to circle the globe by bicycle was Thomas Stevens who made the trip between 1884-6.

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