Wanderlust
GOOD traces the most famous trips in history.
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When Spain commissioned Ferdinand Magellan to find a westward route to the Spice Islands in 1519, the explorer commanded five ships and 240 men. Six years later, nearly every member of the expedition, including its commander, was dead. When the American writer Jack Kerouac tried in 1951 to find the words to convey his wayward journey through the United States and Mexico, he commanded a typewriter and a massive stash of Benzedrine. After a few weeks, the first draft of On the Road was completed. These are just two of the journeys that have left indelible marks on our collective maps, and are endless sources of fascination. Here is compilation of some of the most famous jaunts of all time—both factual and fictional—that show us how far we’ve come, and where we might go next.
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Half Safe and Who Needs a Road?
You're missing two important contemporary round-the-world journeys: those documented in the books Who Needs a Road? and
wrote Half-Safe: Across the Atlantic by Jeep. Both are fascinating reads.
Posted on August 20, 2008 — by ruk
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Salomon August Andrée
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Posted on August 24, 2008 — by torren
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trips within/around antarctica like the journey of the Endeavor or Scott/Amundsen's competing trips; or what about the attempts to map the northwest passage or the north pole?
i also like isabella bird's journeys: she made trips throughout the american west, plus hawaii, japan, elsewhere...
Posted on August 27, 2008 — by edgertor
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if you don`t know...
so, what about Bartolomeu Dias, the first man to make a expedition to cape good hope and to make his way to india, what about Gil Eanes, a portuguese mariner that make his way in cape bojador and was considered a major breakthrough for European explorers and traders en route to Africa and later to India? What about Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India.
And Ferdinand Magellan aka Fernão de Magalhães ( his real mane ), that was a Portuguese maritime explorer who, while in the service of the Spanish Crown, tried to find a westward route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. This was the first successful attempt to circumnavigate the Earth in history? be serious and give GOOD information. it`s a shame you don´t know the real history. grettings from PORTUGAL!!!
Posted on August 28, 2008 — by BJPAKOSTA
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Where's Kon-Tiki and Ra - Thor Heyerdahl
The first journey(s) I looked for were those of Thor Heyerdahl and crew - on the Kon-Tiki and on the Ra II. I've never tired of those expeditions and have re-read Kon-Tiki an untold number of times. Both, great stories - and, for me, anyway, preferable to Kerouac.
Posted on September 2, 2008 — by union
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