He is known for his fantastic voyages to the eastern shores of North America. ... Consequently, he gathered up a crew and 5 ships to go with him on his voyage. ... After this voyage he came to England on August 6, saw the King on August 11, and returned home to his wife and kids by August 23. ... This voyage was called the "Lost Voyage" because Cabot and his crew were lost and never returned. ...
The voyage matures her years beyond her young and tender age of thirteen. ... She tells us at the very beginning of the book that she kept a journal in order to help put together her story of what happened upon that fateful voyage. ... It was real and interesting and fantastic all at the same time. ...
Hixson is a fantastic piece of literature that gives the reader an insight into flying in the early 20th century. ... From his initial interest in flight during his early childhood, all the way up to his transatlantic voyage a passion for soaring above the clouds is what kept him going. ... Although he received great acclaim for his voyage his prominence attracted mal -intentioned individuals. ...
"The Fellowship of the Craft" The "fellowship of the craft" is truly the most important aspect of a crew, and therefore of their ship and her voyage. ... These two end results of the fellowship are the entire basis of a successful voyage, in both the safety and productivity of a vessel, and the emotional well being of her crew. ... (Dana, pg. 83) The fellowship is much more obviously rendered in fiction, as an exploited force for driving fantastic and or horrifying storylines. ... The fellowship of the craft is the basis of any voyage and truly within the soul of a sailor. ...
For the writer of fantastic stories to help the reader play the game properly, he must help him in every possible unobtrusive way to domesticate the impossible hypothesis. ... The Time Traveler began his voyage home back to the present. ... After returning to the present, the Time Traveler is prepared to go on his voyage again; this time with supplies. ...
In both Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Hall of Fantasy" and Robert Frost's poem "Birches," we are guided through a fantastic description of a world where the actual must merge with the imaginative, where our dreams are a sort of therapy for the concerns of daily life. ... Our dreams act in much the same way as this passport; they allow us to make a voyage into the unknown, to see there isn't only one way of thinking, and come home to our actualities with a fresh perspective on our own existence. ...
In January of 1841 Melville undertook a second voyage on the whaler Acushnet from New Bedford to the South Seas. ... Melville took his final whaling voyage as a harpooner on the Charles & Henry, but left the voyage while on the Hawaiian Islands and returned to America as a sailor on theUnited States, reaching Boston in 1844. ... The novel was another Polynesian adventure, but its fantastical elements and jarring juxtaposition of styles made it a critical and commercial disappointment. ... Melville then devoted himself to lecture tours and a global voyage that he abandoned in San Francisco. .....
The audience undertake the voyage of discovery alongside Horatio. ... The reactions of the characters, the content of the speeches, the way the lines have been structured, and the information that the audience has learnt, have therefore all combined to promise a fantastic play and a tragedy of great proportion. ...
In Laughing Man, Salinger portrays the young boy and narrator as a happy go lucky child playing sports, enjoying the company of his friends and most of all getting lost in the fantastical story telling of his bus driver. ... When she discovered he was in the dinghy and planning a voyage to run away again, Boo Boo made light about it. ...
Together with those effects, the power to record for an no limit length of time allowed the filmmaker to deliver a fantastic opening scene in the Fight Club (Fincher 1999) which starts from the inside of the protagonist's head and ends with the gun pointing in his mouth (McClean 2007). ...
TITANIC It was the beginning to the 20th century, a time when technological miracles were being created at a fantastic rate. ... On April 4, 1912, with great fanfare and over 2000 people aboard, the Titanic left dock on her voyage to New York and sailed into history. ... And with that he left the bridge knowing that navigationally speaking, this was the most crucial part of the voyage. ...
The short book is a gathering of annotations, anecdotes and findings that the self-proclaimed humble Fray made of the inhabitants that he encountered and observed while accompanying Columbus on his second voyage. ... TaÃno myths dealt with the origin of the sun and the moon, which they believed came from a cave called Jovovava; the transformation of asexual beings into women by the iriri bird that made holes in trees; and the fantastic creation of the sea when a pumpkin broke spilling the enormous...
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