Sentence examples for a single expedition from inspiring English sources

Given that he had written precisely one book and participated, 23 years earlier, in a single expedition, this claim could have appeared somewhat bombastic.

Foreign climbers shell out upwards of $40,000 for a single expedition, including costly permits — but the guides that risk their lives to accompany them never see the bulk of that money.

Loudoun's plan for the 1757 campaign was submitted to the government in London in September 1756, and was focused on a single expedition aimed at the heart of New France, the city of Quebec.

Before it put a man on the moon, the United States was known for a single exploratory expedition: the 1803 Voyage of Discovery of Lewis and Clark.

At the heart of its economy was the colleganza, a basic form of joint-stock company created to finance a single trade expedition.

After Ericson's single expedition, his role as Vinland explorer was assumed by Thorfinn Karlsefni, who once led a party of 160 men and women in three ships.

The single expedition is the subject of the single book, written by Cherry-Garrard, or Cherry, as he was called, after nearly 10 years of agonizing, crippling introspection and analysis.

In fact, the claim was unduly modest; for the book was "The Worst Journey in the World," one of the undisputed classics of exploration literature, and his single expedition had been with Robert Falcon Scott in his final, fatal bid for the South Pole, an expedition perhaps unsurpassed in the hardship and misery endured.

Having survived a near-fatal snakebite in Costa Rica in 1980, I have long practiced what Jared Diamond calls constructive paranoia in the field, and I had not a single accident on the expedition.

Allemand returned to Rochefort on 23 December, having not lost a single ship during the expedition.

For scientists, having all of the technology on a single animal was a rare expedition that, as best as it could, let them travel alongside the mother bear via data diary.