Kazimierz Nowak
Journalist, Visual Artist
1897 – 1937
Who was Kazimierz Nowak?
Kazimierz Nowak – was a Polish traveller, correspondent and photographer, born in Stryi. After the First World War he lived in Poznań.
From 1931 to 1936, he traveled alone, on foot and by bicycle across Africa, covering a distance of 40,000 km: from Libya to South Africa and back to Algeria. He seems to be the only man in the world to have done it. His accounts of the travel were first published jointly as late as in 2000, as a book entitled Rowerem i pieszo przez Czarny Ląd. He died in Poznań from pneumonia as a consequence of emaciation of the body due to the travel, malaria and a leg surgery.
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- Born
- Jan 11, 1897
Stryi - Nationality
- Poland
- Profession
- Died
- Oct 13, 1937
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on July 23, 2013
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