36 Metaphors for voyaging

Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle" is to me the best book of the kind ever written; it is one of those classics which decline to go into artificial categories, and which stand by themselves; and yet Darwin, with his usual modesty, spoke of it as in effect a yachting voyage.

This voyage is the subject of a well-known apostrophe in The Pleasures of Hope, beginning

The Second Voyage of De Gama to India in 1502; being the Fourth made by the Portuguese to the East Indies.

Voyage from Alexandria to BeyroutLanding at QuarantineThe GuardiansOur QuartersOur CompanionsFamine and FeastingThe MorningThe Holy Man of TimbuctooSunday in QuarantineIslamismWe are RegisteredLove through a GratingTrumpetsThe Mystery ExplainedDelights of QuarantineOriental vs. American ExaggerationA Discussion of PoliticsOur ReleaseBeyroutPreparations for the Pilgrimage Chapter II.

With the exception of the very first voyage, that of King Arthur to Iceland in 517, which is founded on a myth, all the voyages are authentic accounts of the explorers themselves, and are immensely interesting reading even at the present day.

Eventually, after many severe privations, Alexandria was reached in safety; but this disastrous voyage was a turning-point in Lady Hester's career.

A passage across the bay did not often occur in the tranquil lives of the burghers; and it is still within the memory of man, that a voyage between the two principal towns of the State was an event to excite the solicitude of friends, and the anxiety of the traveller.

His last voyage from England was in the sloop Cadogan from Bristol, in the character of chief mate.

The next voyage my friend proposed to me, was to go among the spice islands, and bring home a load of cloves from the Manillas, or thereabouts; islands belonging partly to Spain, but where the Dutch trade very considerably.

Another voyage of pagan Irish literature is the Voyage of Bran.

Voyages and Travels indeed are no barren ground; and you must seldom let a Number of your Review go abroad without an Article of this description.

These voyages at Cada Mosto are the oldest extant in the form of a regular journal, and were originally composed in Italian, and first printed at Venice in 1507.

It has been well observed by Irving, that to one about to visit foreign countries a long sea voyage is an excellent preparative.

Otherwise, a peaceful voyage would be such a rarity, in these unsettled times, that few men would be found hardy enough to venture on the water for a livelihood.

It may easily be conceived that the voyage for these fifteen hundred men, most of whom were unaccustomed to the sea, was not a pleasure trip.

The last two voyages are not pleasant reading, and one might wish that the author of two such inimitable tales as the adventures in Lilliput and Brobdingnag had stopped with these.

The whole voyage, from Buffalo and Detroit, had indeed been a novel and fairy scene.

The whole voyage, direct to Upsala, is a kaleidescope on a large scale.

The voyage to windward was a much more serious business than the run to leeward.

Franklin's voyage was (d) under unpleasant circumstances.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

That voyage is woont to be made in fiue and twentie or thirtie dayes, but we were foure moneths, and at the ende of three moneths our ship was without victuals.

The Voyage to the Houyhnhnms was a bitter screed against mankind, and is in many respects disgusting.

Voyage of Alonso and Francisco de Albuquerque to India in 1503; being the fifth of the Portuguese Expeditions to the East Indies.

The voyage from Tahiti to Moorea was a two-hours' panorama of magnificence and anomalism in the architecture of nature.

36 Metaphors for  voyaging