"Odyssey" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to any long journey that involves many difficulties and experiences. For example, "The family's vacation was an odyssey that included a cross-country drive, camping in national parks, and sailing on a lake!"
Buy from Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk An elegant British writer dusts down Homer for a new generation, examining in detail the character of his two epics, from the gore of "The Iliad" to the blindings of "The Odyssey".
The British government has just signed a deal with Odyssey to recover treasure, and then to split the proceeds, from HMS Sussex, which went down off Gibraltar in 1693, carrying a million pounds in coins.
Despite his own long record, Mr Biggs struggled to raise money, and some of his initially keenest investors backed out as the time to pay up approached.Chapter Five—"The Odyssey of Starting a Hedge Fund: A Desperate, Frantic Adventure"—should be compulsory reading for anyone contemplating forming their own fund.
Prose versions on the other hand, even good ones, tend to be more work-a-day.Now, a young English poet, Simon Armitage, has risen to the daunting challenge with a new version of the "Odyssey".
If Odyssey is forced to hand over a large part of its Black Swan haul a cloud will fall over all commercial treasure-hunting.
This is an odyssey in the originalsense of the word – protracted, circuitous, not necessarily bound to end.
But such blanket protection may soon be a thing of the past, for the real argument at Harare revolved around elephants which were as legally mollycoddled as whales were until the meeting, but are now open, in some circumstances, to legitimate trade.Tusk forceIn this section Space odyssey Sustainable arguments Is competition red in tooth and claw?
The downside of that possibility is that a returning rock might actually hit one of the rovers.Spacecraft in orbit around Mars NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Odyssey and MAVEN (which will have just arrived), and the European Space Agency's Mars Expre ss are at greater risk that way.
The one-time leader is also enjoying his elevation to the House of Lords, completing his long odyssey from obstreperous enfant terrible to affable statesman.
These missions have no orbiters (NASA already has two, Mars Odyssey and Mars Global Surveyor, on station).
Clear-eyed and not the least self-pitying.___________________________________The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World.
