Although they never met, Cartwright kept a journal of the trip and later wrote a one-woman play called In Search of Fellini, partially based on her voyage.
Sykes deduces that modern Polynesians came from Southeast Asia -- not from South America, as Thor Heyerdahl famously proposed, based on the voyage of his raft Kon-Tiki.
His first book was The Traveller's Tree (1950), based on a voyage in the Caribbean in the company of Joan Eyres-Monsell, daughter of the First Lord of the Admiralty, whom he had met at the end of the war.
In an early account of what may be Fernando de Noronha, purportedly based on a voyage by Amerigo Vespucci in 1503, the island was said to be inhabited by "lizards with two tails", which is thought be a reference to the Noronha skink.
Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Everything Is Illuminated tells of a fictional character named Jonathan Safran Foer's trip to Ukraine, a voyage loosely based on one the author took.
Evidence that Vikings (Norsemen) landed on the coast is scant and disputed, and serious questions exist about some of the early British claims based on John Cabot's voyages in the late 1490s.
(It is clear that this story, which appears in the Orkneyinga Saga, is based on the later voyages of Magnus Barelegs and some scholars believe it to be apocryphal).
Even a holiday in 1854, necessitated by ill health, was turned to advantage: in 1855 he published a literary guidebook based on his travels, Voyage aux eaux des Pyrénées ("Voyage to the Waters of the Pyrenees").
Charles Darwin's Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (1842), a monograph based on his 1832-36 voyage in HMS Beagle, left a lasting impression on the young David and in Steers he found someone who not only had a lifetime interest in evolving coastal structures, but who in the 1920s had worked on the cays – low islands, sometimes sandy – of the Great Barrier Reef.
Melville senior died when the boy was 13, leaving his family in genteel poverty, from which, seven years later, in 1839, the young Melville escaped as cabin boy on a merchant ship bound for Liverpool.The autobiographical "Redburn", based on this English voyage, was written a decade later, after his whaling years in the South Seas which resulted in his first two novels, "Typee" and "Omoo".
