Kazimierz Nowak

Kazimierz Nowak

Kazimierz Nowak (January 11, 1897 - October 13, 1937) - was a Polish traveller, correspondent and photographer, born in Stryi. After the First World War he lived in Poznań.

From 1931 to 1936, he travelled alone, on foot and by bicycle across Africa, covering a distance of 40,000 km [http://www.tutej.pl/pliki/cms/1754/mapa70.jpg] . He was probably the first man in the world to do this.Fact|date=May 2008 His accounts have been published in a book entitled "Rowerem i pieszo przez Czarny Ląd" ("By bicycle and on foot across the Dark Continent"). He died in Poznań.

ee also

*Ryszard Kapuściński

External links

* [http://www.kazimierznowak.pl Official website www.kazimierznowak.pl]
* [http://www.kazimierznowak.pl/2006/11/30/biography/#more-32 Biography in English]
* [http://www.sorus.com.pl/sklep/index.php?p96,884-rowerem-i-pieszo-przez-czarny-lad-listy-z-podrozy-afrykanskiej-z-lat-1931-1936-wydanie-iii-rozszerzone-font-colorrednowosc-font "By bicycle and on foot across the Dark Continent" - 2007, 3rd extended edition (Polish)]
* [http://www.sorus.com.pl/sklep/index.php?d=produkt&id=76 "By bicycle and on foot across the Dark Continent" - 2006, 2nd edition (Polish)]

Video

* [http://ww2.tvp.pl/video/2006/11/30/98979/film.asf The memorial to Kazimierz Nowak was unveiled in Poznań in November 2006 by Ryszard Kapuściński (Polish TVP3 footage)]


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