James Wilson (motorcyclist)
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James Wilson (motorcyclist)
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James C. Wilson was a long-distance motorcyclist and author of the autobiography Three-Wheeling Through Africa. His five-month 1927 journey from Nigeria to Eritrea on a Triumph sidecar with Francis Flood may have been the first motorized crossing of Africa by motorcycle. After a United States tour in the late 1930s promoting his travels and book, Wilson resided in Polk, Nebraska where he was a corn farmer. Photographs he published in National Geographic were used in a 21st century MIT anthropolo
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Long-distance motorcyclist (1901–1995)
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2022-04-18T08:49:55Z
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