Sentence examples for modern expeditions from inspiring English sources

Although many expeditions are clearly for profit ventures (professionals paid to guide clients), the relationship between the members of modern expeditions can sometimes be ambiguous and be a potential source of misclassification.

MY AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A Modern Expedition Through History's Forgotten Battlegrounds, by Robert Sullivan.

Published in 1818, when John Ross had just returned from the first modern expedition to the Arctic and William Parry was gearing up for the next one, the book reminded readers that their world was already full of Dr. Frankensteins.

The modern expedition, led by University of New South Wales climate scientist Chris Turney, intended to follow in his footsteps and record how this remote part of the world has changed in the past 100 years; it would look at the impact of climate change on animal populations and on the temperature and saltiness of the sea.

In Frozen in Time, Mitchell Zuckoff recounts their harrowing experiences as well as a modern expedition to find the remains of one of the planes and its crew, still missing 70 years later.

Chasing Shackleton is a three part UK documentary released in 2013 about a modern expedition that recreates the rescue part of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914.

"The whole idea of a modern scientific expedition is formed in this time.

Despite the glorious end of the expedition, modern scholars argue that Manuel ultimately achieved much less than he had desired in terms of imperial restoration.

Sahure launched several naval expeditions to modern day Lebanon to procure cedar trees, people (possibly slaves) and exotic items.

June 6 marks the 68th anniversary of D-Day, the greatest military expedition in modern history, led by Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower.

The goal of the modern day Australasian Antarctic Expedition is to repeat many of the original measurements and studies, to see how facets of the environment have changed over the past century.