Sentences with phrase «british explorer»

When Captain James Cook was credited with discovering Hawaii in 1778, the British explorer landed on what is considered one of the most remote land masses in the world.

Dutch explorer Abel Tasman visited Fiji in 1643, and the British explorer James Cook named «New Caledonia» in 1774.

One of two long - lost British explorer ships that mysteriously vanished in the Arctic in 1846 was recently discovered, Canada's prime minister announced Tuesday, possibly solving one of history's biggest puzzles.

Edward Ripley - Duggan profiles the 19th century British explorer and hunter Frederick Courteney Selous, whose adventures are chronicled in the Library of Arnold «Jake» Johnson.

She's the British explorer of ruins and the queen of action adventure platformers.

Find the «real» Australia in down - to - earth cities and laid - back towns such as the quirkily titled Seventeen Seventy (also known as Town of 1770), so named after the year in which the British explorer, Captain James Cook landed here.

Classic travel writing, published in the 1950s, from the British explorer who spent five years travelling the deserts of Arabia.

The art collection and architecture of the Hotel Captain Cook helps tell the story of the hotel's namesake, British explorer and cartographer Captain James Cook.

Cook was the first British explorer to make contact with the Hawaiian people.

He has participated in an expedition with the British Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes that retraced the final portion of Livingstone's journey to the Victoria Falls, and was featured in the National Geographic - PBS documentary The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone.

Following the unlikely friendship between British explorer Daniel Rooke and a young aboriginal girl, it's based on a real - life story.

After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve «the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century»: What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z?

The Lost City of Z tells the true story of famed British explorer Percy...

James Gray's adaptation of the story of early 20th Century British explorer Percy Fawcett, based on a New Yorker article and subsequent book by David Grann, is as beguiling, beautiful and ultimately confounding as the Amazonian jungle in which it is largely set.

Loosely adapted from David Grann's nonfiction book, James Gray's ambiguous and lyrically orchestrated historical epic turns the story of the early 20th - century British explorer Percival Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam, in a revelatory performance) and his search for a lost civilization in the wilds of Brazil into a symphony of mystery, obsession, and transcendence.

The film is about the life of Gertrude Bell (Kidman), a British explorer, who set out into the Arab desert to discover the mystery of the vast lands, while becoming a significant person involved in drawing out the geographic map lines.

Co-starring James Franco and «Homeland» actor Damian Lewis, it is a real life story of Gertrude Bell (Kidman), a British explorer and political officer, who made her influence known in the Middle East during the 1920s.

It was the reaction of many who, earlier this year, saw The Lost City of Z, James Gray's arty period epic about an early - 20th - century British explorer searching for a new civilization in the Amazon.

Best of all might be unknown Pedro Coello as Fawcett's initial guide, Tadjui, his insights into what heading down the Rio Verde for the first time will eventually mean for the British explorer earth - shattering in their prescient clarity.

It starts in darkest Peru, where a young bear (voiced by Ben Whishaw) has been raised by his aunt and uncle (Imelda Staunton and Michael Gambon), who learned about London from a British explorer.

The Lost City of Z recalls the true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.

The Lost City of Z tells the true story of famed British explorer Percy Fawcett, who, in 1925, ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned.

«The Lost City of Z» Release Date: April 21 Director: James Gray Starring: Tom Holland, Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson and Sienna Miller Synopsis: A true - life drama, centering on British explorer Col. Percival Fawcett, who disappeared while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.

A British explorer «in darkest Peru» happens upon a family of talking bears, introduces them to marmalade (a substance they become instantly addicted to), drops off a hat and buggers off back to London.

Based on author David Grann's non-fiction bestseller, The Lost City Of Z is the incredible true story of pioneering British explorer Percy Fawcett, who...

9) «The Lost City of Z» Smart Rating: 87.83 Release date: Friday, April 14, 2017 Genre: Adventure, historical drama, biography Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller Description: At the dawn of the 20th century, British explorer Percy Fawcett journeys into the Amazon, where he discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.

The Lost City of Z: Director James Gray turns the story of real - life British explorer Percy Fawcett — and his repeatedly thwarted attempts to discover an advanced civilization in the Amazon jungle — into a meditation not just on colonialism, but on an entire culture's inability to see past the assumptions built into labels.

James Gray's personal epic of magnificent obsession in the Amazonian rainforest tells the story of a British explorer's dogged search for proof of an advanced civilization deep in the wilderness, and the lengthy pursuit that will consume him.

Gray directs the true - life drama, centering on British explorer Percival Fawcett, who disappeared while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the «20s.

British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) surveys the South American jungle in the languid epic Lost City of Z, a nice - looking movie that nevertheless finds itself up the Amazon without a paddle.

Set in 1925 and based on David Grann's best - selling book of the same name, the true - life drama centers on British explorer Col. Percival Fawcett (Hunnam), who disappeared while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon.

The two elder bears fondly remember being visited by a British explorer named Montgomery Clyde (Tim Downie), who realizes they are intelligent animals who can learn English.

This documentary tells the story of the survival of British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of his vessel «The Endurance,» which shipwrecked in the ice floes and frigid ocean of the Antarctic in 1914.

At the dawn of the 20th century, British explorer Percy Fawcett journeys into the Amazon, where he discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.

Some navigation is still reliant on mapping conducted during the 18th century by British explorer Capt. James Cook, she said.

An unexpected bitter cold snap appears to have damned British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's turn - of - the - century South Pole expedition.

Today's British Explorer.

A British explorer who went missing in Papua New Guinea three weeks ago has been saved by a Christian missionary.

Sometime in the early 20th Century, British explorer Ernest Shackleton needed to hire a crew for an upcoming expedition to the South Pole.

Park guests board replica tramp steamers from a 1930s British explorers» lodge and are taken on a voyage past many different Audio - Animatronic jungle animals.

Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson star in the true - life story of British explorers seeking an unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon.

Fleming chronicles the harrowing adventures of nineteenth - century British explorers dispatched by Admiralty officer John Barrow to map uncharted corners of the globe.

The Fiji Museum in Suva, Viti Levu, takes you on a journey through the nation's history and cultural development, featuring centuries - old clothing, traditional canoes and harrowing stories of British explorers coming face to face with cannibalism.

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The explorer, he said, «landed (armed to the teeth and speaking by signs) to plant the British flag on that barbaric temple which turned out to be the pavilion at Brighton.»

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Notable bearers of the name Freya include Instagram star Freya Nightingale (this lady has amassed over 80 thousand followers), Freya Stark (no, not a relative of Sansa but a reputable British Italian explorer and travel writer).

Cameroon has a lengthy history of political and social repression, beginning with pre-colonial contact with European explorers in the 16th century, the transatlantic slave trade, forced labour and colonisation (first as a German protectorate until the end of WWI, and then divided among the French and British into two colonised Cameroons).

British biographer Holmes» passion for the topic comes through in this rich and often entertaining chronicle of intrepid vertical explorers who risked (and in many cases lost) their lives lifting human flight out of the realm of mythology and into the air.

Last season, a multinational team (British, Italian and Korean) on board Endurance inspected three tourist vessels, the Europa, the Explorer and the Akademik Sergey Vavilov.

Just offshore from the pebble beaches of Bere Point on Malcolm Island, British Columbia, the Naiad Explorer rocks gently in the waters of the Queen Charlotte Strait.