Originally Posted by
merziac
There's a lot of consternation surrounding that claim.
I've read some of the 1890s news items on her trip. Reportedly, she booked steamship passage from Marseilles, France to Yokohama, Japan. Her celebrity got her a 50% deduction in the price of her ticket. Basically, she skipped most of Europe and Asia, with limited cycling at the stopover ports en route. The only place she appears to have performed any significant cycling was in the USA.