Sublime

Here, in a month will be assembled the numerous fishing boats of the exporters, and these are the waters their divers will ransack so boldly. Happily, this bay is well situated for that kind of fishing.

Malcom McLean’s shareholding, representing 88 percent of McLean Industries’ common stock, was wiped out, and he and his son Malcom McLean Jr., a vice president, were ejected from the management. Thousands of people lost their jobs.23 “Malcom never got over the U.S. Lines bankruptcy,” a longtime associate said later. He went into seclusion, shunning

Unbeknownst to De Long, there was one large village close to the coast, on the northwestern edge of the delta. It was called North Bulun, a settlement of a hundred people situated on ground high enough to avoid the Lena’s seasonal flooding. If De Long had landed only eight miles farther to the west, he would have struck a clear branch of the river

Entre tous les exploits de ces hardis conquistadors celui qui fit la plus forte impression sur moi fut le voyage de Ferdinand Magellan, qui partit de Séville avec cinq pauvres cotres pour faire le tour de la terre – la plus magnifique odyssée, peut-être, de l’histoire de l’humanité que ce voyage de deux cent soixante-cinq hommes décidés dont

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer, and his sons are born in exile.

conscient de sa responsabilité envers les hommes qui lui confient leur existence, il surveille les moindres préparatifs de son voyage. Il contrôle lui-même les marchandises à bord, revise les factures, vérifie les cordages, les armes ; il connaît comme sa poche les cinq navires depuis la hune jusqu’à la cale.