# Annie Londonderry Barely Knew How to Ride a Bike When She Set Off Around the World

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/annie-londonderry-barely-knew-how-to-ride-a-bike-when-she-set-off-around-the-world/
- Published: 2022-03-25T09:15:34-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image caption: As she rode around the globe, Annie Londonderry encountered many dangers, from a drove of pigs to a war in Asia. Image credit: Michelle D’Urbano for Atlas Obscura. Article by Tom Ward. Atlas Obscura – March 18, 2022. It started, as so many things do, with a bet. It ended with a broken arm, a $13,000 purse, and two fingers in the eyes of the patriarchy. “A Boston newspaper woman about twenty-seven years old…will undertake to travel around the world, and at the end of fifteen months return to Boston,” the New York Times reported on February 25, 1894. […] Click here to view original web page at www.atlasobscura.com Curated by Theresa Wysocki Director of Art & Design See Full Bio