How to pronounce“circumnavigators”in English

Circumnavigators' long tradition, 500-year tradition, of engagement with the planet questions our sense of historical uniqueness.

Circumnavigators from very early on read each other's accounts and commented on each other's experiences and saw themselves as extending a process from the past

Only circumnavigators change the day on the calendar, they change their place in time.

individual circumnavigators are themselves aware of the history and the traditions that they are reenacting.

I found that the premodern circumnavigators starting in 1500s onward were by definition not only thinking of themselves in relation to the planet,

Instead, circumnavigators' awareness of the planet may teach us something worth knowing about why we think about the Earth the way that we do.

First of all, the circumnavigators' paradox.

Second, circumnavigators mark their voyages on maps and globes as an entire, again, planetary circuit.

There would be a lot of portraits also make with circumnavigators holding or leaning on a globe.

Many circumnavigators beginning with Drake had portraits made them in which they hold globes, again, something that only monarchs or Christ had done so.

I'm going to proceed now to point out three ways in which circumnavigators described themselves in terms of a full planetary existence, traditions

From the 16th century onward, circumnavigators claimed the privilege of claiming the whole world to mark their accomplishment.

This becomes, again, another hallmark of the circumnavigators' passage-- the swoop around the full globe, the desire to mark on a map or globe how you did it,

The temporal element-- the gain or loss of a day-- the representation of an entire planetary activity through the circumnavigator's tracks, the third element was how circumnavigators

Equally, it's now clear that it was imperialism that had smoothed the way for most earlier circumnavigators under political and social circumstances