Sentence examples for early expedition from inspiring English sources

Cairns interleaves chapters recounting Thesiger's early expedition to find the source of the Awash River in the ferocious Sultanate of Aussa with his amusing descriptions of an upbringing in an area whose novelty was supposed to represent the triumph of late 20th-century civilisation.

It is unclear if this early expedition took place, since it is not directly referenced in early reliable sources or the sagas.

An early expedition led by Robert Stuart from 1812 to 1813 proved the Platte impossible to navigate by the dugout canoes they used, let alone the large sidewheelers and sternwheelers that would later ply the Missouri in increasing numbers.

Their lavish and well designed production is marred by the text which is both superficial and sensationalist, though it may appeal to armchair mountaineers.In the first group—about Mallory and early Everest mountaineering—"Last Climb", by David Breashears and Audrey Salkeld, began as a history of the early expeditions.

Terrible anxieties about safety accompanied early expeditions.

Although science lay behind the early expeditions of which Fuchs was a member, experience and triumph over difficulties - both physical and intellectual - were of greater importance to him.

Early expeditions, photos and books established a certain mountain in the national imagination, and boys reading books grew into men eager to climb.

"We were three in a little station with no way of getting any support in case we had an accident," he says of one of his early expeditions.

"Few Westerners ever get to see the bird of paradise's courtship display in the wild," Mr. Laman wrote in National Geographic about his early expeditions.

HIGHLIGHTS -- "Description de l'Egypte," illustrated accounts of Egyptian expeditions commissioned by Napoleon (1821-30); the first published book on Indians of North America (1590); lantern slides and photographs from early expeditions to Egypt and the American Southwest.

The North Pole did not become in itself a goal of exploration until fairly late; the few early expeditions that tried to reach the pole were looking for a polar route to the East rather than for the pole itself.