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Tupaia invented a cartographic system for Cook and his men which located a northern bearing from any island he drew in the centre of his Chart (marked by the word 'avatea', this is '[the sun at] noon'). This allowed him to translate his own wayfinding knowledge for island-to-island voyages into the logic and terms of Cook's compass.
Voyage to Melonia [1] (Swedish: Resan till Melonia; full English title: Voyage to Melonia: A fantasy loosely based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest') is a 1989 Swedish-Norwegian animated adventure fantasy film directed by Per Åhlin, loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, with further inspiration from Jules Verne's Propeller Island and Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.
Brendan discovering the Faroes and Iceland Stamp sheet FR 252–253 of Postverk Føroya Issued: 18 April 1994 Artist: Colin Harrison. An immram (/ ˈ ɪ m r əm /; plural immrama; Irish: iomramh [ˈʊmˠɾˠəw], 'voyage') is a class of Old Irish tales concerning a hero's sea journey to the Otherworld (see Tír na nÓg and Mag Mell).
Frontispiece by Walter Crane, of the first edition, 1878 Canal barges in Belgium. Frontispiece by J. B. Carrington 1878 (see "External links" for more images from the book). An Inland Voyage (1878) is a travelogue by Robert Louis Stevenson about a canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876.
The tale may derive from the "otherworldly journey" material from Irish mythology, possibly of pan-Celtic origin [a] [12] However there is a dissenting camp of scholars who hold that "these tales [echtrai] are literary compositions written within the Christian period". [12] The concept of "voyage" has been widely used across the world in that time.
Return to Mysterious Island 2: Mina's Fate is a 2009 adventure video game developed by Kheops Studio and published by MC2 France under their Microïds label. It is a sequel to the 2004 video game Return to Mysterious Island , and is again based upon the 1875 book by Jules Verne , The Mysterious Island .
Bashō by Hokusai. Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細道, originally おくのほそ道), translated as The Narrow Road to the Deep North and The Narrow Road to the Interior, is a major work of haibun by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, considered one of the major texts of Japanese literature of the Edo period. [1]
Television series; Episodes "The Reluctant Stowaway," "Island in the Sky", "The Hungry Sea" and "My Friend, Mr. Nobody". Williams composed two different opening themes, one used only for the first season; the second was also adapted by other composers for later film and TV remakes of the series. None but the Brave: Frank Sinatra: Tokyo Eiga Toho