The government says that policy, which rights groups and the United Nations have criticized, is meant to stop migrants from trying the often dangerous voyage in rickety boats, which have sometimes ended in mass drownings.
If these migrants are willing to risk everything in a terrifying, and often deadly, voyage, the situation at home must be filled with unbelievable horrors.
For, the mere mention of such a policy could be expected to encourage even greater waves of refugees to attempt the often fatal voyage from the Turkish coast, turning Greece into the weak link among a chain of errors.
As he put it: "I think often of that voyage.
The voyage — often through roiling seas and occasionally past icebergs — shattered the previous record of 292 days set by a British sailor, Chay Blyth, in 1971.
In "The Age of Wonder," Richard Holmes writes that "the idea of the exploratory voyage, often lonely and perilous, is in one form or another a central and defining metaphor of Romantic science".
Mr. Luchini's solo theatrical show is "Le Point sur Robert," a deeply personal, often hilarious comedic voyage through the texts of his favorite French authors, from Chrétien de Troyes, the 12th-century troubadour, to the poet Paul Valéry and the literary theorist Roland Barthes.
Survivors of the perilous voyage often report violence and abuse by people traffickers.
Fortunately, the currents were seldom fast and, on long voyages, often tended to cancel each other out.
Because of its portability, artists were often taken on voyages of scientific discovery to record findings, as the watercolour sketches of exotic flora and fauna from Captain Cook's voyages on display attest.
