Abstract
The publication describes the life stories of the Czech adventurer Cenek Paclt from Turnov. In addition to Emil Holub, Enrique S.
Vráz and Josef Kořenský, Paclt is one of our most famous 19th century travelers. However, it has an important position among Czech adventurers and travelers because it holds one primacy.
Paclt has proven to travel through all five inhabited continents, leaving a written testimony to it. The main part of the thesis focuses on Paclt's travel adventures, which he spent on five continents.
The processing is chronological so that the orientation in the text is clear and does not pull out the individual facts of Paclt's life outside the time classification. First of all, he mentions his youth and his first trip to Europe, then his departure for the ocean and joining the US Army, with which he participated, for example, in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).
He later traveled from Australia to Australia and also visited Asia. In these parts, Paclt made a living as a gold digger, and especially in the Australian bush visited places that no Czech had previously known.
He also traveled to New Zealand and later returned to Bohemia. Although he planned to stay in his home country, he eventually set out on the African continent for political reasons and a desire to explore new regions.
Here he made his living primarily as a diamond seeker. He even met the then-emerging traveler Emil Holub and advised him on his African anabasis.
Mutual friendship, however, did not last long. In Africa, Čeněk Paclt spent seventeen years and did not return to his native country.