Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit," in which she explores the full history around the globe travel over the course of almost 500 years.
Circumnavigation again is the oldest human activity done on a planetary scale, and it's 16th century sailors who did it first.
Korea does a circumnavigation .
This notion of circumnavigation , it must be connected also to the idea of getting to the ends of the Earth in various directions, the edges of the known Earth.
They do an unintended circumnavigation , thus proving it was possible, but again, coming back with a tiny percentage of crew.
Rates of return for circumnavigations shot up into the 90th and 80th percentiles, reversing the earlier pattern entirely.
I wanted to explain why a circumnavigation is distinctive.
It's not technically a circumnavigation , believe it or not.
That's what he wanted his circumnavigation marked as.
As I discovered these elements of circumnavigation , defined very early from the 16th century onward as characteristic way in which people could have
The United States first did a circumnavigation in the 1780s, shortly after the American Revolution, an important demonstration of independence.
That is the most recent development in circumnavigation .
The death rates on early circumnavigations were, in fact, appalling.
is the Victoria-- the first ship to make a circumnavigation .
Their tininess and the smallness of their ship make a circumnavigation of the comparatively enormous globe seem impossible, and yet it happened-- over and over,
I like to say that I found the topic of circumnavigation in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Everyone has some idea of the big statement that a circumnavigation makes through geodrama.
Together, the accounts of circumnavigation constitute the longest and most sustained way in which people have been able to consider themselves as actors within a geodrama, even
That was the before picture or the early picture of circumnavigation .
This has meant that the new trend in circumnavigation is to demonstrate sustainable energy.
Over time, circumnavigations would be presented as dramatic entertainments, first in print, then on stage, and today on film.
Having a fearful attitude about taking on the entire planet through a circumnavigation was entirely rational.
Mortality statistics for naval battles and for maritime disasters were in fact lower than for circumnavigation .
This is just to give a sense that the dangers of a circumnavigation combine the dangers of war and disaster.
Yes, we have mounted a circumnavigation .
hundreds of thousands of times, and even more circumnavigations are taking place right now as I speak on every level of the Earth, both beneath the sea,
That whole body experience of the whole Earth is well documented in the accounts of circumnavigations , which describe what it felt like-- from agonizing
And in Istanbul, I discovered that the world record for a circumnavigation by bicycle was being broken in this very kind of corporate-backed attempt that was sort of at odds with all
allowed the voyages of discovery, including the discovery of the Americas and total circumnavigation .
Just in the first three years of the project, they'll have done one circumnavigation of the entire earth, just in this project area.
So ever since, the temporal transition has been a hallmark of circumnavigation .
to exhilarating, depending on the period of time when the circumnavigation was done, depending on the person's experience.
The around the world travelers, who in the 19th century were pioneers in this democratization of circumnavigation , were assisted by two important developments.
They chose very well by saying that this would be a famous circumnavigator, the first circumnavigation of Venus, so why not call it Magellan?
Within the European countries that sponsored the first circumnavigations , there was an established tradition
The nice thing about doing this ski tour around this small part of the mountain range, this circumnavigation , if you will, was it took us about seven days.
It was in this initial phase-- the longest, if you notice, in the history of circumnavigation -- that death prevailed.
As well, again it was expected to lose ships, giving some indication of the extraordinary expense of trying to put on a circumnavigation for a nation state that
Many sailing ships have done this so far, and solar impulse, the solar powered airplane, wants to make an entirely solar powered circumnavigation ,
Several were named for famous circumnavigating vessels, including the Columbia, named for the first US vessel, to make a circumnavigation .