Henry's achievements would be swiftly overtaken by the more dramatic voyages to the Americas, but he ordered the exploration and charting of more than 2,000 miles of the African coastline.
I didn't get into his music as a teenager – I was an opera fanatic from 13 – but my sister Martha did, so there we were, embarking on very dramatic voyages in terms of the music that we liked, with Cohen just being this low voice to me through the wall.
As we follow a troupe of actors touring a geriatric sex comedy (winkingly called Nothing On) through flyblown regional theatres, observing from a variety of angles as the on-stage action is overwhelmed by real-life pratfalls, it becomes less a voyage of dramatic discovery than a penitential progress.
It was a dramatic and decisive defeat; after a voyage lasting seven months and when within a few hundred miles of its destination, the Baltic Fleet was shattered, and, with it, Russia's hope of regaining mastery of the sea was crushed.
More-fantastic voyages usually call for more-dramatic images.
Adding this analytical kick to Jeanne's sentimental voyage through India, Jacquot delivers a clever and memorable dramatic payoff.
The Prado, left, is a marble maze of secrets, from Durer's shattering self-portrait to Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, and a voyage through Spanish painting - so deep, dark and dramatic.
Finally, the festival will show "Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure" (12 30 and 4 p.m .. Using archival photographs and films and dramatic re-enactments, this 2001 film chronicles Sir Ernest Shackleton's harrowing voyage to the Antarctic in 1914-16.
An account of the disastrous 1820 whaling voyage that inspired Moby Dick, it's been deemed to be short on dramatic yo-ho-ho by critics and over-reliant on CGI.
After two seasons with the show, however, Ms. Gurney left the program in a dramatic finale, as Lady Marjorie sailed to America -- almost -- on the maiden voyage of the Titanic.
With little success there, he had turned instead to writing, publishing works including The dramatic censor; being remarks upon the conduct, characters, and catastrophe of our most celebrated plays (1752), A Voyage to the Moon (1753) (a translation of Cyrano de Bergerac's Le Autre Monde: ou les États et Empires de la Lune), and The Battle of Lora (1762).
