Sentences with phrase «traversing vast distances»

In the early years of Canada's settlement by Europeans, the voyageurs spent months, sometimes years, traversing vast distances of wilderness to buy animal pelts from distant Native trading posts.

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The evidence contributes to the emerging picture that the Silk Road — which the Ottoman Empire closed off in the 15th century — was a highly three - dimensional network that not only traversed vast linear distances but also scaled tall mountains.