Sentences with phrase «many sea voyages»

The three - day camping trips and sea voyages have raised millions of dollars for various business and philanthropic ventures.

It is a hastily planned sea voyage, a metaphoric exchange of solid ground for the unsteady, highly volatile seas of philosophical and aesthetic speculation and, as such, an apt metaphor for German Romanticism's precarious explorations as a whole.

When spices first came into wide use in food preparation, the difficulty of obtaining them along lengthy land routes or dangerous sea voyages made them exotic and rare.

The Phoenicians invented a dried sausage to sustain them on long sea voyages, and they carried with them spices such as nutmeg, cumin, coriander, and cloves, which formed the basis of Middle Eastern spice blends such as baharat.

The scenes carved into a wall of the ancient Egyptian temple at Deir el - Bahri tell of a remarkable sea voyage.

Chandra, as he was always known, had his big idea when he was only 19, on the long sea voyage from India to England, where he took up a research studentship at the University of Cambridge.

If Erlandson and his colleagues are right, it was a series of sea voyages and river crossings that brought our ancestors to alien lands, launching the greatest biological invasion of all time.

Lemon's high vitamin C content made it ideal for staving off scurvy on long sea voyages.

I often tell clients to think of earthly life like an old - fashioned sea voyage.

Synopsis: On a sea voyage to transport breadfruit to Jamaica, English Captain Bligh (Trevor Howard) abuses his crew and officers enough to anger his 1st Lieutenant, Fletcher Christian (Marlon Brando).

When Raleigh rhapsodizes about the joy of sighting land at the end of a sea voyage, he's accompanied by a soaring musical theme.

Weekly living - history sessions have students acting out California's history: an Ohlone hunter tracks deer and practices archery; a Spanish sailor suffers through a sea voyage; a Californio daughter embroiders a skirt hem or grinds corn; a Kentucky farmer packs up his belongings to join the wagon train.

Lord of the Silent With son Ramses, his wife, Nefret, and a few unwelcome additions in tow, the elder Peabody - Emersons embark on a dangerous sea voyage to Alexandria, ultimately ending up in Cairo for their annual excavations.

As the narrative moves between the decks and holds of the ship and the boy's adult years, it tells a spellbinding story - by turns poignant and electrifying - about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.

Whether they did or not is for you to decide as Jonquil Graham takes you on a return journey to childhood and teenage years that included sea voyages, modelling assignments, making a movie, Contiki trips, doing t...

On February 13, 1806, the brig Favorite left Boston harbor bound for the Caribbean island of Martinique, with a cargo that few imagined would survive the month - long sea voyage.

Surviving murderous thieves, a nerve - racking sea voyage, and the deadly sands of Egypt with Napoleon's army, American adventurer Ethan Gage solved a five - thousand - year - old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion.

The sea voyage around South America from New York or Liverpool or Le Havre required five or six months, depending on conditions off Cape Horn, which could terrify the most hardened unbeliever to prayer.

I also felt there is room for finding subtle references to possible incest from Florence's father - perhaps on the sea voyage — though I would have expected this to be dealt with in the conclusion.

It's said that the little white dogs either accompanied ladies on long sea voyages or were used as ratters on ships.

Nothing ruins a spectacular sea voyage like the onset of motion sickness — but these tips will help you combat the quease, whenever it strikes...

Public Ferries depart every hour for the sea voyage between Padang Bai Harbour (Bali) and Lembar Harbour (Lombok).

Its Cabo da Roca is the famed location of many sea voyages and exploration missions with spectacular vertical cliffs rising up out of the sea.

Now that I have sailed with Viking Cruises on a sea voyage (larger boat) and a river itinerary (traditional small boat), I wanted to share with you some Viking Cruises secrets.

Overland, air and sea tours cater for every desire, from Great Barrier Reef sea voyage to four wheel drive outback camping safaris and birdwatching.

The company have released details of her voyage from Easter Island to Tahiti, «In the Wake of the Bounty» which has proven very popular and for «South Seas Voyage» from Fiji to Tahiti.

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I also appreciate combat being handled by dice because it brings a little randomness into the mix without it being overpowering — sending Vikings on a sea voyage to slay a beast or just tasking them with fighting a troll is more interesting when you have to weigh up how many you should send.

Disappearance at Sea (1996) is loosely inspired by Donald Crowhurst's failed around — the — world sea voyage.

In a small adjacent room, a continuously - streaming video of a sea voyage completes Long's evocative oceanic experience.

The show explores «both the idea and the image of a transatlantic sea voyage.

sculpture and prints by the New York artist, based on the idea of a transatlantic sea voyage.

As TED describes it, «One piece of Mission Blue is a sea voyage to the Galapagos Islands, April 6 - 10, 2010, gathering some of the world's most renowned ocean experts — marine scientists, deep sea explorers, technology innovators, policy makers, business leaders, environmentalists, activists and artists — for an epic adventure into the blue.

According to TED, «One piece of Mission Blue is a sea voyage to the Galapagos Islands, April 6 - 10, 2010, gathering some of the world's most renowned ocean experts — marine scientists, deep sea explorers, technology innovators, policy makers, business leaders, environmentalists, activists and artists — for an epic adventure into the blue.

The sea voyage will cover some 60 nautical miles (111 km) and is expected to take five or more hours to complete — depending on winds or unforeseen difficulties.

Not exact matches

Summit at Sea, for example, is bringing together AOL co-founder Steve Case, National Geographic Society explorer in residence Sylvia Earle and Univision host Jorge Ramos on this year's voyage.

This past spring, she was invited to sail on various legs of the voyage as a corporate technology mentor on Unreasonable at Sea's accelerator program.

A voyage with Regent Seven Seas Cruises includes all - suite accommodations, round - trip domestic air and business - class air on intercontinental flights from U.S. and Canada, highly personalized service, exquisite cuisine, fine wines and spirits, unlimited internet access, sightseeing excursions in every port, gratuities, ground transfers and a pre-cruise hotel package for guests staying in concierge - level suites and higher.

Sweaty, asphalt - sea intersections make pedestrian traversal feel like adventure voyages.

So far this year, over 2,500 refugees have died somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea in their desperate voyages to places like Athens.

The Rortyan vision of heaven on earth, in which people merely tell enlightening tales and abjure the search for truth, sounds like a gathering of tipsy old sea dogs swapping dimly remembered stories of past voyages of discovery.

Between his two parallel sequences of feeding, voyage, controversy with Pharisees, and healing (cf. p. 36) Mark inserts the departure of Jesus to the borders of Tyre and Sidon (7:24), and his return «through Sidon unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis» (7:31).

Has he taken a sea - voyage?

This failure to identify that animals were pregnant and exclude them from export meant that heavily pregnant animals endured the worst possible conditions during the voyage — with the stockman's report revealing heavy seas and cattle unable to rise to their feet.

[The following excerpt is from the 1816 journal of Matthew Lewis, author of The Monk, who died at sea, on the voyage homewards from the West Indies, in the year 1818.]

Add to this extreme heat, exhaustion, rough seas, poor ventilation and millions of litres of untreated waste, and a typical live export voyage quickly becomes the perfect storm for death and suffering.

The story of a seven - month voyage at sea, Windjammer, the only feature film ever made in Cinemiracle (a wide - screen process), opened at the Roxy in New York City on a movie screen measuring 100 feet wide by 40 feet high.

You'll explore the Pride Lands with Simba, Timon and Pumbaa; voyage under the sea with Ariel and all her aquatic friends; tour London with Peter Pan and Wendy, before flying to Never Land; and travel to Hawaii to visit Lilo and Stitch.

At 4 months old, the pups are weaned and begin a voyage from the Pribilof Islands of Alaska through the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean that can last for 20 months before they return to the islands.

Join New Scientist for an exhilarating whale watching voyage to spot grey, blue, fin, sperm and humpback whales with Art Taylor, who has been sailing the seas of Baja for thirty years.