Avid English Long Rider, Charles Darwin, rode on four continents during the time he
was making his voyage on the Beagle. He is seen here on his
horse, Tommy. |
Cossack Long Rider Mikael Asseyev rode from Kiev to Paris in 1889. |
During his 1920s journey from Buenos Aires to Washington, Swiss Long Rider
Aimé Tschiffely took his horse Gato across a chasm in the Andes. |
In 1910, Little Long Riders - Bud and Temple Abernathy - rode from New York
to San Francisco in 62 days.
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Scottish Long Rider, Catherine de Bourboulon, rode from Shanghai to Moscow
in the mid-nineteenth century. |
Swedish Long Rider, Countess Linde von Rosen, rode extensively through
Europe in the 1920s. |
Swiss Long Rider, Otto Schwarz, rode 48,000 kilometres on five continents in
the late twentieth century. |
While journeying from Siberia to India, French Long Rider Gabriel Bonvalot,
rode over the Pamir Mountains in 1887. |