Annie Londonderry’s amazing bike trip around the world
Annie Londonderry’s amazing bike trip around the world
by Gene Bisbee at 05:00AM (PST) on February 14, 2008 | Permanent Link | Cosmos
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.
Read the rest of the story and find a link to the book on Amazon.