James Wilson (motorcyclist)

James C. Wilson (October 8, 1900 – January 31, 1995)[1][2] was a long-distance motorcyclist and author of the autobiography Three-Wheeling Through Africa.[3] 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.[4]

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.[1]

Photographs he published in National Geographic were used in a 21st century MIT anthropology course.[5]

Bibliography

  • Wilson, James Calmar (1936). Three-wheeling Through Africa (first ed.). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company. ASIN B000856L32.

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