<story><title>The Amateur Tramp – A Walk of Ten Thousand Miles Around Australia</title><url>https://greatestadventurers.com/the-amateur-tramp-the-man-who-walked-around-a-continent/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DyslexicAtheist</author><text>Crossing the Nullarbor on foot must have been insane. I did the same route but with camping gear and a car in the 90ies, and had the time of my life. The scale of the distances between points on the map are not comprehensible (to a kid from Europe at least). I wanted to do a day trip to Monkey Mia right after getting off the plane and started planning out my journey from Perth. I didn&amp;#x27;t believe (understand) that there is often nothing between 2 points on the map. A map entry would often just be a literal petrol station (that is also a pub and a shop and a farm) and nothing else. I had to learn the hard way that when they say &amp;quot;there&amp;#x27;s f*k all there mate&amp;quot; that they really mean it.&lt;p&gt;I guess the reason for him cutting short the Kimberley&amp;#x27;s and Northern tip of Queensland, was that it must have been inaccessible or too dangerous back then. Anyway it seems like travelers have already been advised 100 years ago to stay clear of these places.&lt;p&gt;There is an Ed Stafford &amp;quot;Marooned&amp;quot; episode where he tries to survive in the Kimberley&amp;#x27;s. (much endorse).&lt;p&gt;edit: If you have visited Australia (or plan to go) don&amp;#x27;t miss out on Bill Bryson&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Down Under&amp;quot; (must read if you like travel literature that is also hilarious) &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Down_Under_(book)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Down_Under_(book)&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Amateur Tramp – A Walk of Ten Thousand Miles Around Australia</title><url>https://greatestadventurers.com/the-amateur-tramp-the-man-who-walked-around-a-continent/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>piokoch</author><text>Reminds me history of Kazik Nowak [0], who traveled alone on a bike through Africa. The expedition took him 5 years (between 1931-1936).&lt;p&gt;He wrote a great book about his trip, prizing amazing African nature and giving a hard time colonial powers for making this continent such a miserable living place for its natives. Book does not have English translation unfortunately.&lt;p&gt;Nowak died soon after coming back (trip was really exhausting, he got Malaria) and for many years his achievement was forgotten. In 1962 his daughter managed to publish a book her father trip, but it didn&amp;#x27;t attract much attention (communists didn&amp;#x27;t like to promote anything positive about pre-communism times achievements). Finally it was reedited in 2000 and become very popular in Poland.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Kazimierz_Nowak&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Kazimierz_Nowak&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>