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Journey Without Maps. Journey Without Maps (1936) is a travel account by Graham Greene, about a 350-mile, 4-week walk through the interior of Liberia in 1935. It was Greene's first trip outside of Europe. He hoped to leave civilization and find the "heart of darkness" in Africa. The interior of Liberia was at the time poorly mapped (an American ...
Maps "The World of Homer" (based on V. Bérard) from A. A. M. van der Heyden, H. H. Scullard, Atlas of the classical world (London: Nelson, 1959) Map of the geography of the Odyssey based on the ideas of Iman Wilkens; University of Pennsylvania, Department of Classical Studies, Interactive Map of Odysseus’ Journey
Pennine Journey is a 247-mile (398 km) circular trail that starts and ends in Settle, North Yorkshire, England. The route is based on a walk taken by Alfred Wainwright in 1938 and described by him in a book published in 1986. From Settle, the route heads north through North Yorkshire, County Durham and Northumberland to Hadrian's Wall, then ...
The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which James Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun (3–4 June that ...
Dallas Mavericks star Luka Dončić is available for Sunday's Western Conference finals Game 3 against the Minnesota Timberwolves after entering warmups with a questionable designation. Head coach ...
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) is a travel narrative by Samuel Johnson about an eighty-three-day journey through Scotland, in particular the islands of the Hebrides, in the late summer and autumn of 1773. The sixty-three-year-old Johnson was accompanied by his thirty-two-year-old friend of many years James Boswell, who was ...
Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift, Chase Daniel. Getty Images (3) Travis Kelce gave his stamp of approval after former Kansas City Chiefs player Chase Daniel detailed the invisible string theory that ...
Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. When rediscovered in 1929, the remaining fragment garnered international attention as it includes a partial copy of an otherwise lost map by Christopher Columbus. The ...