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词条 Harry Lee McGinnis
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Harry Lee McGinnis popularly known as Hawk (born August 28, 1927), is an American traveler doing a 129,000 km around-the-world walking tour. He started in Dublin's St. Patrick's day parade of 1992, and by March 2008 has completed 66 countries.[1]

He started on his first walking expedition in August 1983, aged 55, setting off on a 4-year walk. to go in and through all the 50 states of the continental United States. He finished in April 1987. According to the "Hawk", he tours the world by walking. Planes, ships and other modes of transports are used only when necessity called for it.

"I've said many times it's a dream that probably built up because my grandfather took National Geographic and I read that before I was six years of age. I was taught to read by using the NG magazine. It became a favourite of mine and all the pictures of faraway places with those strange-sounding names.".[2]

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080509000545/http://in.news.yahoo.com/reuters_ids_new/20080417/r_t_rtrs_en/ten-american-walker-goes-round-the-world-7aa7811.html News in Yahoo ]
  • BBC video story

See also

  • List of pedestrian circumnavigators

References

1. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2008/04/17/us-panama-walker-idUSN1623106820080417|title=American walker goes round the world at 80 years|accessdate=2013-10-15 | work=Reuters|date=2008-04-17}}
2. ^{{cite web | url = http://rtv.rtrlondon.co.uk/2008-04-19/2be61c39.html | title = Panama | format = CSV | publisher = Reuters | date = 04/19/08 }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

External links

  • His own website
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3 : Pedestrian circumnavigators of the globe|Living people|1927 births

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