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Sachtleben (William) Diaries

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William Lewis Sachtleben was an American long-distance cyclist who rode across Asia from Istanbul to Peking in 1891 to 1892 with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr., his classmate from Washington University. This was part of a longer journey that began the day after they had graduated from college, when they travelled to New York and on to Liverpool; in all they travelled 15,044 miles by bicycle, “the longest continuous land journey ever made around the world” as reported in their book Across Asia on a Bicycle (1895). They spent the winter of 1891 in Athens from January 3 to early April, after which they took a steamer to Istanbul. Sachtleben documented their travels with photographs and diaries, the latter of which he numbered sequentially. Two of the diaries are in the Sachtleben collection. Notebook No. 7 records his stay in Athens from January 3 to February 5, 1891, and Notebook No. 10 records a portion of his journey in Turkey, from April 12 to May 9, 1891.


Collection Overview

Date Created
January 3, 1891-May 9, 1891
Extent
2 notebooks

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Repository
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
ARK
ark:/21198/zz002hj1b4
MANIFEST URL
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Physical Description

Extent
2 notebooks

Keywords

Genre
notebooks--19th century
diaries--19th century
Athens (Greece)--Description and travel
Bicycle touring--Greece
Turkey--Description and travel
Bicycle touring--Asia
Missionaries--American--Turkey
Names
Gurdjian, Serope A. (Serope Armenag), b. 1847
Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Sachtleben, William Lewis Diaries
Kapsambelis, Basilios Georgiou, 1866-1929
Location
Turkey
Greece

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