Quotes About Adventure

More scared, even, than the time the black panther chased him through the woods back home in Millerstown, New York.

Eleven-year-old Danny Crane had moved to Hawaii just weeks before. Ma had brought Danny to Hawaii to get him out of trouble, away from the crime and the rats and the dirty, dangerous streets of New York City.

Some of the world's richest and most famous people flew on the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg,

Dex was being sucked into the tornado, and he knew there could be no escape.

Nate tried not to stare at Paul, but he kept thinking of the devilish teenager who'd clowned around on Papa's ships. He'd sneak vinegar into the men's canteens. He'd taught the ship's parrot to cuss in French. Nobody drove Papa and his men crazier — or made them laugh harder.

You never know what's ahead," Papa would say, his eyes brimming with excitement.

Things turn up in strange places all the time. For example library books, which possess a disconcerting ability to move from place to place, seemingly of their own volition.

and head north, toward the shelter offered by Paranaguá Bay.

Magellan finally gave the command to weigh anchor on August 24. After the harrowing five-month layover

Fernão de Magalhães, or Ferdinand Magellan. According to most accounts, he was born in 1480, in the remote mountain parish of Sabrosa, the seat of the family homestead. He spent his childhood in northwestern Portugal, within sight of the pounding surf of the Atlantic.

the Armada de Molucca put to sea.

The strait still eluded them but, God willing, they would find it, and reach the Spice Islands

the armada sailed into the open waters of the Atlantic, the abandoned conspirators

By May 18, they went ashore again, in a different bay, where they waited fifteen days for the missing ships.

With their maneuverable sails and impressive seaworthiness, caravels became the vessels of choice for exploration.

The gallows that Magellan had erected still cast a shadow over a hill

mass, only Magellan's cousin, Álvaro de Mesquita, the recently appointed captain of San Antonio, came aboard Trinidad

they are suspected of dismembering and devouring the body of Amelia Earhart

especially the Spaniards, posed a danger as great as the sea itself.

Magellan realized that the empty chairs made for an ominous sign.

Magellan capitalized on a piece of luck. The longboat belonging to Concepción's captain, Gaspar de Quesada

Prince Henry offered a bold reply, "You cannot find a peril so great that the hope of reward will not be greater.

under the command of the two Portuguese commanders.

In pursuit of his goal, he attracted navigators, shipwrights, astronomers, pilots, cosmographers, and cartographers