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  2. Transglobe Expedition - Wikipedia

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    Following the expedition, in 1993 a charitable trust was established to support other expeditions with humanitarian, scientific or educational goals. [17] The trust is a registered UK charity and has supported a number of projects including Ed Stafford's 2010 expedition to walk the length of the Amazon River , and survey of the endangered ...

  3. Bradshaw's Guide - Wikipedia

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    They plan innumerable journeys across country for the fun of linking up impossible connections." (chapter 2). Another reference is in an aside in The Riddle of the Sands (1903) by Erskine Childers: "... an extraordinary book, Bradshaw, turned to from habit, even when least wanted, as men fondle guns and rods in the close season."

  4. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    Odyssey (), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", Orpheus, The Time Machine (), Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter), The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien), Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh), "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell), The Third Man, The Lion King, Back to the Future, The Lion, the Witch ...

  5. Grandfather's Journey - Wikipedia

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    The story is told from the perspective of Say, who narrates his grandfather’s immigration between Japan and the United States. [1] Say’s grandfather subsequently moves back to Japan. [ 2 ] Released by Houghton Mifflin , the book was positively received by critics and reviewers, and Say received the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1994.

  6. Hero's journey - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of the hero's journey. In narratology and comparative mythology, the hero's quest or hero's journey, also known as the monomyth, is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed.

  7. Journey (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Journey, a novel by James Michener published in 1989, was expanded from a section originally cut from his large novel Alaska (1988). The book depicts five men, one of whom being an English Lord (Lord Luton), who journey from Great Britain through Canada to Dawson, Yukon in 1897-99 to participate in the Klondike gold rush .

  8. Mandeville's Travels - Wikipedia

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    Here begins the journey of the faithful Brother Odoric, the companion of the knight Mendavil through India; although here he described his journey first and the other afterwards.") At a later day Sir Thomas Herbert calls Odoric "travelling companion of our Sir John" Mandeville and anticipates criticism, in at least one passage, by suggesting ...

  9. Night Ride and Other Journeys - Wikipedia

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    Night Ride and Other Journeys is the third anthology of short stories by Charles Beaumont, published in March 1960. The volume is out of print, but reasonably available. The volume is out of print, but reasonably available.