Sentence examples for daring explorer from inspiring English sources
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There's a final pleasant surprise on the back cover of the book: a photograph of the real Roy Chapman Andrews, looking every bit the daring explorer as he cradles a dinosaur egg, a broad-brimmed hat shielding his face from the noonday Gobi sun, a pickax at his feet and a revolver on his hip.
He describes Darwin on the Beagle as "a dashing, daring explorer, happy and confident," but in "middle age, while achieving scientific fame, he was characterized by querulousness, reclusiveness, and endless illness" (p. 27).
Mr. Feld was a physically daring choreographic explorer in "Organon," the work to Bach organ music he staged for the New York City Ballet.
National Geographic's TOPO! Explorer gives daring technophiles a chance to create and share their favorite trails using detailed topographic maps provided by USGS.
President Bush hailed the astronauts of the space shuttle Columbia today as seven lost explorers of great daring and purpose, then declared that America's only course in the face of the tragedy was to push forward in the conquest of space.
Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen conceived the daring idea that a ship might be made to do the same, thus providing a base for scientific investigation of the Arctic Ocean and incidentally a means of reaching the pole.
All the authorities endorse the statement of Sir Clements Markham, that, while Captain Amundsen made a daring and successful dash, the British explorer never had any intention of engaging in a race with the Scandinavian, but is pluckily and aggressively following his original intention to add to the sum of human knowledge while making his way toward his objective.
That was an important consideration for Mr. Ronning and Mr. Sandberg, who grew up in a small town in southern Norway that neighbors the explorer's birthplace and who as children were enthralled by the daring of Heyerdahl and his five fellow adventurers.
Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl sold 50 million copies of his book about a daring sea voyage in the late 1940s, and went on to win an Oscar for his documentary about the daring 4,300 mile trip on a balsa wood raft.
