Sentences with phrase «long ocean voyages»

On long ocean voyages, sailors consumed sauerkraut to help prevent a disease known as scurvy, caused by a deficiency of vitamin C.

What they discovered a thousand years ago was that they could preserve cod fish for long ocean voyages.

The long ocean voyage from Europe to India took her around the southern tip of Africa.

Urged by her psychiatrist (Claude Rains) to make radical changes in her life, Charlotte starts to slowly break free after falling in love with a married man while on a long ocean voyage (Paul Henreid), only to find her efforts ending in heartache.

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Far from Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage by Sophie Webb (Houghton Mifflin, 2011); ages 9 to 12 This book chronicles the author's four - month - long Pacific research vVoyage by Sophie Webb (Houghton Mifflin, 2011); ages 9 to 12 This book chronicles the author's four - month - long Pacific research voyagevoyage.

Deep trenches, unexplored surfaces and a long, treacherous journey: Sounds like a voyage to Mars, but it also describes the trip to the bottoms of Earth's own oceans, about which we know even less than the Red Planet.

New fears begin to surface: the long journey overland, the hard ocean voyage that follows.

Like an ocean voyage long stalled by calm seas, the question of «agent - assisted publishing» for authors was all but dropped a couple of years ago, at least in many polite industry conversations.

At the end of an ocean voyage — or just a long flight — let this luxury villa pamper you with a resort - worthy pool, an al - fresco lounge area and five suite - style bedrooms.

A new seven - day Norwegian Fjords Interlude adds to a lineup that includes sailings from Southampton aboard Crown Princess, Grand Princess and Ocean Princess; plus the opportunity to travel on top - of - the - world voyages aboard Ocean Princess to explore the beauty of Iceland and Greenland, or sail on a week - long Ireland & Scotland Interlude.

For many of our early immigrants the coastline near the lighthouse would have been their very first land sighting after a very long, ocean voyage from Europe.

Most recently she returned from an adventure in Antarctica, a 5 - month long voyage aboard the ocean - going sailing ship SEDNA IV after shooting a three - part Canada - France co-production about the impact of climate changeon the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Antarctica.

I know that tornadoes dot the German Rhine where no tornadoes were seen before, I know hurricanes on the Eastern seaboard are behaving differently, I know that Crete was so dry when I saw it that I couldn't imagine olive trees growing there without irrigation, I know that our highways are a half kilometer wide and countless kilometers long, with thousands upon thousands of idling cars sitting on them, ten times a week for as long as I've been alive, and I know that sea captains don't want to traverse the Indian ocean because the almanacs are no longer reasonable guides to chart how long a given voyage from one port to the next might take.

They certainly were not afraid to make long voyages in northern oceans.

Though lucky participants might catch a glimpse of a bottlenose dolphin or two, smokestacks, sewage pipes, and shipping containers are the main attractions on the Urban Ocean Boat Cruise, a two - and - a-half-hour voyage along a part of the Los Angeles coastline not featured on Baywatch.Organized by the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, the trips — which start daily as of Memorial Day weekend — «ply Southern California's most compromised waters to show the environmental effects of trade, fishing, industry, and other human activities,» the Los Angeles Times reported recently.