Sentence examples for expedition went from inspiring English sources
But command of the expedition went instead to Capt.
The expedition went on to Angra da Roca (present-day Algoa Bay).
He echoes the Scott party line: that the British expedition went to Antarctica to do science, not to race to the pole.
The trouble was, though, the longer the expedition went on, the more the whole project reeked of failure, and failure of a commercial kind would anyway mean disgrace.
My only task was to see that news of the expedition went home fast, safely and exclusively to The Times of London.
The expedition went on to discover new islands (later named the Schouten Islands) off the northwestern coast of New Guinea before reaching its destination, Batavia, Java (now Jakarta, Indon)., in October 1616.
Some historians see this venture as an exploratory expedition gone wrong.
The expedition goes badly: the entire Athenian army is killed or captured and the prisoners confined to quarries, where "they suffered everything which one could imagine might be suffered by men imprisoned in such a place".
No one who has read John Krakauer's Into Thin Air – the American author's epic tale of a Mount Everest expedition gone catastrophically wrong – will have been totally surprised by the story of the bust-up between a trio of Western climbers and a group of Sherpas as they converged on the flanks of the world's highest mountain at the weekend.
Beginning with a Jamaican expedition gone wrong, The Lazarus Curse takes the reader on a dark journey reminiscent of Heart of Darkness... but firmly rooted in British soil.
To read more of the scientists work during the Tuamotu/Gambier segment of the expedition, go to the Recent Mission: French Polynesia page at www.livingoceansfoundation.org.org
