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…. The ship then sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and on to China. On an overland trip through Siberia and on back to England, Crusoe had many more encounters. Ultimately, Robinson Crusoe, after a total of 54 years abroad, returned home, an old, weathered man…

…for scientific sanity" would never dare support such a theory, said a British geologist. Thus did most in the scientific community ridicule the concept that would revolutionize the earth sciences and revile the man who dared to propose it, German meteorological…

…to return to his father’s homeland (Greenhills online). He fulfilled his dream of becoming a sailor. Conrad seriously began his writing four years after he had left the sea. His influence on later novelists has been profound. He is the novelist of man…

…A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” written by Ernest Hemingway, is about an old waiter and a young waiter working in a café. Also there is a deaf old man who is getting drunk in the bar. The younger waiter is aggravated that the old man will not leave…

…for needless whipping of an old Hebrew man. After this, Moses feels he must leave Egypt, even though his brother tells him that he will eradicate him of this crime. He leaves town and wanders through the desert until eventually he comes to the home of The High…

…Beowulf is one of the great heroic poems in English literature. The epic follows a courageous warrior named Beowulf throughout his young, adult life and into his old age. As a young man, Beowulf becomes a legendary hero when he saves the land…

…their relationship. A Farewell to Arms, his first novel that was published ten years later was based on his hardships with the war and his first love, the nurse. Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 after writing the novella The Old Man and the Sea…

…1 determined man, 27 volunteers, 1 boat and a lot of ice, this remarkable story captures to voyage that was one of man's greatest feat of human survival. In August 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton, captain of the sailing ship Endurance, with 27 men on board…

…The principal geographical feature of Jordan is an arid plateau that thrusts abruptly upward on the eastern shores of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, reaching a height of about 610 to 915 m (about 2000 to 3000 ft), then sloping gently downward toward…

…. However, she stopped weaving after she was married. Greatly outraged the Emperor forced the girl back across the river and allowed her to join her husband only once a year. A fable from China is “The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains…