Quotes About Expedition

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville.

Giant northern elephant seals] were presumed extinct as late as 1912 when a group of eight seals was spotted on Guadalupe Island in the South Pacific by a Smithsonian expedition, which shot seven of them! Fortunately they missed one and failed to spot a few others.

A schimbat pana, cheia ce deschide sufletul poetului, pe un pistol, cheia ce deschide porÈ›ile lumii. C?ci atunci când expediem un glonte în pieptul unui om e ca È™i când am p?trunde noi înÈ™ine în pieptul acestuia; iar pieptul altuia înseamn? lumea.

Pray do not take us as exceeding the bounds of business courtesy in pressing you in all ways to use the utmost expedition.

I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

I'd really like to go down the Amazon in some capacity. I've spent time in the Congo, so I love the jungle.

A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.

drove up to earth.

Do not be sidetracked. A good referee will have many ways to distract an expedition, many things to draw attention, but ignore them if at all possible.

wrote to Washington to propose just such a raid: "The enclosed Dispatches from Culper have this moment come to hand. . . . C. writes with great sollicitude for troops to be sent from this side to attack those lying at Setauket. I need not repeat to your Excellency how exceedingly happy I should be to assist in such an Expedition, should it be thot. advisable." To Tallmadge's disappointment, Washington did not approve

Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the

Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings

Be it determined, however, that each one this records is given by means of a man who, in line with his personal assertion, become only at one of the islands, and remained there however two weeks, slumbering every night on board his ship, and taking little child-glove excursions ashore within the sunlight hours, attended by an armed birthday celebration.

It has been placed under the northern pole, in Tartary.

make haste and let us be off

The philosophy of the discoveries, the emigration, and the colonisation was Christianity.

For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to. Now, in the more than 20 years I've been doing this, the concept of adventure-travel trips or expeditions by groups has sprung up. The places I went 20 years ago now have adventure-travel trips.

hide-hunting outfit might travel with

We've explored every type of environment in the solar system at least once.

The Last Canyon by John Vernon is a beautiful retelling of John Wesley Powell's 1869 exploration of the Grand Canyon and his and his men's inevitable and tragic clash with a tribe of Paiute Indians who lived on the canyon's northern edge.

The most spectacular-and embittering-of the British suppressions of the Irish was Oliver Cromwell's punitive expedition of 1649

The windchill factor above Camp IV could only be found on a chart for Mars.

No woman has ever stepped on Little America -- and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.