But that should not be the last the shore will see of convention visitors.
And when the Phaeacian ship sets Odysseus down at last on the shore of his longed-for Ithaca, there is a low-voiced conversation over his sleeping body that Homer never wrote.
WITH a fervor perhaps not evidenced since Dinah Shore last belted out "See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet," the organizations that help market American tourist destinations are working determinedly to deliver pitches meant to resonate with consumers now leery of traveling.
A transcript of the last ship-to-shore radio communication reveals muddle and indecision.
Some scholars attribute the poem to Nausicaa, a princess of the seafaring Phaeacians, who helps Ulysses at last reach the shores of Ithaca.
The book opens like an English schoolboy novel, with a steamship moving toward adventure as it makes its way up the Missouri River, at last on the shores of the great West.
In Hayward's words, Kurdistan may be "the last big on-shore 'easy' oil province available for exploration by private companies anywhere in the world", with reserves equivalent to the North Sea's before those were exploited.
The combo account has come at long last to these shores.
Paul Lawrie was the last from these shores to win the Open, at Carnoustie in 1999, but the Scot was another Muirfield victim and collapsed to a 10-over 81.
