Hurtigruten Research Paper

As hunters across the state venture out into Alaska's forests and tundra in hopes of filling their freezer with moose meat, hunters in the Lower kuskokwim have bit the bullet and hung up their rifles. They are entering the first year of a self-imposed five-year moose-hunting moratorium they hope will significantly improve their moose hunting in the future.“The main stem of the Lower Kuskokwim is one of the few places left in Alaska that has outstanding moose habitat and extremely low numbers of moose,” said Roger Seavoy, the Bethel area biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

“In addition, the Viking ships give references to the medieval times, the era were romanticism and monarchy was so typical in society. Morales romanticizes her grandmother having the best farewell because to Morales her grandmother deserves the royalty, the recognition, and honor of the luminary she is. Morales does not want nor sees her grandmother buried three hundred feet underground. Morales imagines her grandmother being taken by Viking ship and inclusively says, “If there exists a big lake big enough, a lake not explored-another side still being mystery -- I’ll lay your body in a canoe at dusk on a bed of rose petal and ferns” (110).

(1)the sea is dangerous (2)the winds did always blow in the right direction (3)it was such a long way it was difficult to bring enough food and water

Erik the Red was a Norwegian Viking that was born in the 10th Century C.E, and his life contributed significantly to the outstanding legacy of the Vikings through his explorations. It is through the discovery of Greenland and its later settlement that cast Erik the Red’s legendary adventures into folklore. These two events are how Erik the Red played his role in Viking history, not through warfare, but through explorations. The adventures undertaken, and the feats achieved by Erik the Red cement his place in Viking History.

In the 10th century, a man comes back with a fleet of Viking boats that returned later than they were supposed to. The rest of the island recognized him, but to the twins Eirik and Melle, he was a complete stranger; a stranger that, as far as they knew, has never set foot on the island.

Henry Hudson had many voyages that he went on. He had many sponsors and reasons why he wanted to explore what he did. On his very first voyage he was hired to find a shorter way to Asia through the Arctic Ocean. For this voyage he rode the ship Hopewell. He was sponsored by the Muscovy Company. On his second trip he was trying to find a quicker trade route. He even brought his son John with him. He was sponsored by the Muscovy Company on this voyage too. Also he rode

In the opening pages of A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America, the author, Tony Horwitz, conveys:

The Vikings traveled throughout the waterways of Europe and found they needed a specific type of ship to travel. The Vikings built the ships they needed and named them longships or drekkar. The ship had a tapered bow and stern which empowers the ship to easily sail forwards and backwards without having to turn the ship

St Dyfrig or Dyffryn (in Latin, Dubricius) was one of the great Celtic saints prominent in the history of Wales in the 5th, 6th and 7th centuries of Christianity. The earliest account of his life appeared in the twelfth century, some five hundred years after his death. According to this account, he was thought to be the son of Eurddil, daughter of Pebia Claforwg, Prince of Ergyng, which is now part of modern Herefordshire; he was born at Madley on the River Wye.

Imagine saying goodbye to friends, family, and your home town to take a treacherous journey through thousands of miles of ocean in a small wooden boat. Your endpoint, a outlandish and often unfriendly land. Yet, in the 1600s, thousands of English, Dutch, Spanish, and French men and women did just that because of religious oppression, paucity of money, or a hope that a superior life is awaiting them across the Atlantic Ocean.

The Vikings were very civilized and had a very unique way of life. They were travelers and settlers, traders and conquerors. Over the span of about 400 years, the Vikings explored and discovered many places. Among these places are Greenland, Iceland and even North America.They were master shipbuilders and built ships superior to any other ships of that day.Their ships were built of planks of timber, usually oak, overlapped and nailed together. The ships were made watertight by filling the spaces between the planks with wool,

Shackleton set out to accomplish this feat of crossing the continent from sea to sea with some of his men, due to the environmental conditions; he lost his boat and had to transport all 27 men to safety. Shackleton had a higher regard for his men’s safety than his own. Shackleton treated his man as if they were friends rather than just workers, he treated them with high respect and not as a resource.

to accompany them. The purpose of this expedition was to find a water route to the Pacific, to

Every so often in life we encounter an opportunity to take a shortcut, to circumvent the traditional path, and attempt to reach our goals without the customary planning, patience, and hard work that invariably goes into any worthwhile endeavor. One such opportunity presented itself in the late summer of 2007, when I was hired to deliver the 38-foot Island Packet cutter Guinevere from Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands, to Bradenton, Florida. By then I had over thirty years’ experience as a licensed captain, ocean yacht master, and certified sailing instructor, and so when I was persuaded to take a shortcut through Passage Key Inlet and ran aground, I immediately realized I should, all along, have trusted my training and instincts.

Both the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘1001 Nights’ feature male protagonists who traverse the seas, and the concepts and themes of men seafaring is common throughout most canonical texts. For example, the allusion of Odysseus’ difficult journey is made when a minor male character in Apuleius’ ‘The Golden Ass’ describes his seafaring adventures as being ‘positively Ulyssian’ (‘Ulyssian’ thus being a reference the Roman naming of Odysseus) (pg 29). Furthermore, both texts share themes, such as: seafaring, the supernatural, trials and tribulations, tradition, belief systems, and the geographical setting and pride in the protagonist’s home city play a key role to the overarching plots of the texts in the sense of the protagonist’s endurance and motivation to both leave and return home. Likewise, the supernatural is used to further the plot of both texts.