The country stitched its continental expanse together through two centuries of ambitious earthmoving.
His father bade him well, and he set out on a hellish journey without documents or money that took him through the vast expanse of Africa through Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Libya.
Other speakers during the two-day festival, including Michael Palin, Sara Wheeler, Barbara Nadel and chef Atul Kochhar, will explore the world from England's bramble-lined pathways to the vast, empty expanse of Antarctica through food, music, crime-writing and their own journeys.
He let Vann range south through the expanse of ricelands nourished by the Mekong, the great river of Indo-China.
There, hundreds of friends, family and volunteers led Mr. Hess, who wore a formal Indian tunic, in a procession down a path through an expanse of wildflowers.
Inside the store, checkout lines snaked through an expanse that had once been a jungle of clothing, curving around the remaining oases of deeply discounted jeans, evening gowns and children's clothes.
Along with the siblings from El Salvador, who were on their way to Maryland to reunite with their parents, the boys walked through an expanse of prickly pear and cat's claw to reach the road.
There was daylight coming in through an expanse of tinted glass across the broad width of the entrance, to show how it might have looked before it collapsed in a landslide 13,000 years ago and remained hidden until 1868.
Set on Discworld -- a flat expanse of pseudomedievalism floating through space on the backs of four elephants supported by a monumental turtle of indeterminate sex -- the story concerns the intertwined fates of two bumbling heroes: Twoflower (Sean Astin), a na? but enthusiastic tourist, and Rincewind (David Jason), a dropout from Unseen University of Magic.
Right now, it's moving through an expanse of gas called the Local Interstellar Cloud.
