Worldwalk Trek -- Maps and Journal Pages

 

When 28-year-old American freelance journalist Steven Newman left his boyhood home in Bethel, Ohio, on the morning of April 1, 1987, to walk solo around the world, he was truly on his own: no sponsorship, limited funds, his total luggage a backpack he'd nicknamed "Clinger." Over the next four years, his solitary trek took him across the continents of North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The only breaks in his record-setting journey were the oceans and seas he had to fly or sail across, as well as the Iran/Aghanistan and Bangladesh/Myanmar regions because of insurmountable political and/or war issues. Altogether, Newman walked over 15,000 miles between all the villages and cities that straddled his route. These maps are from his books Worldwalk and Letters From Steven. The log book pages are from his "Daily Log Book," in which he recorded (on just one line!) each day's mileage, where he stayed that night, and that day's highlights. He also wrote in a handful of dairies and, in several "Signature Books," he collected thousands of addresses and names from those he befriended. His lengthy, handwritten dispatches to the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch newspaper's Sunday magazine and his bi-weekly column (Letters From Steven), in the nationally-circulated Capper's Weekly tabloid, were very popular and enjoyed by over half a million families.