Quotes About Expedition

It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

Mount McKinley

Thanks to herculean skinning and salting by Heller and Mearns, he can congratulate himself on having shipped, via the railway to Mombasa, "a collection of large animals such as has never been obtained for any other museum in the world on a single trip." The

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

I suspect that you, like I once did, are picturing the Arctic as one endless Pingu landscape of flat ice, broken only by the occasional Berghaus-clad James Cracknell type striding manfully out of the spindrift.

I don't recall exactly when I first began reading about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, but I suspect that it was in fourth grade.

Next morning, when I got up, the inside temperature was 30° below zero. The new arrangement was working quite nicely indeed.

It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days.

Why not?" Grigori shrugged. "Cowardice. The tsar ordered Ivanov to march on Petrograd and set up a military dictatorship, but Ivanov's men became mutinous and the expedition was canceled." Katerina frowned. "Has the old ruling

The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the same partners knowing there's potential in this human relationship.

William Shakespeare

I'll put a girdle round about the earthIn forty minutes.

But the timing of his demise only added to the sensationalist stories, and rumors began to circulate of a curse placed upon the expedition by the restless spirit of the disturbed princess.

knew that he had led a failed expedition to the jungles of the Amazon, an expedition that had cost him his marriage and his honor as well as his career as a rising star in the firmament of natural history.

Ghost bird, do you love me?" he whispered once in the dark, before he left for his expedition training, even though he was the ghost. "Ghost bird, do you need me?" I loved him, but I didn't need him, and I thought that was the way it was supposed to be.

By the time they reached the boat her rudder had already been torn off.

What appeared to be a small cave had been sighted about 30 yards off to the left

then First Lord of the Admiralty, stating that the government desired the expedition to go on.

The Endurance sailed from Plymouth five days later. She set a course for Buenos Aires