In addition, the 2003 Radio Tales drama " Homer's Odyssey: Voyage to the Underworld " retells the portion of Homer's epic featuring Circe, followed by the voyage to Hades to consult with Tiresias.

Before embarking on a sea voyage, planning and preparation will include studying charts, almanacs and navigation books and recent weather conditions of the route to be followed.

As Anderson stated: " Just as Hamlet's review of Fortinbras ' troops leads directly to an ocean voyage overtaken by pirates, de Vere's meeting with Duke Casimir's army was soon followed by a Channel crossing intercepted by pirates.

The route followed in Vasco da Gama's first voyage ( 1497 – 1499 )

The voyage followed the North Atlantic Ocean, Equator, South Atlantic Ocean, Southern Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, Equator, North Atlantic Ocean route in an easterly direction.

Eberhard Kindermann sent an airship to the planets in 1744 in Die Geschwinde Reise auf dem Lufft-schiff nach der obern Welt (" The Airship's Speedy Journey to the Upper World "); while a traveller from the star Sirius passes inward through the Solar System, stopping at various planets in Voltaire's Micromégas ( 1752 ); followed by another outward voyage in Marie-Anne de Roumier-Robert's Voyage de Milord Céton dans les Sept Planètes (" Lord Seton's Voyage Among the Seven Planets ", 1765 ).

When the voyage resumed in June 1874, the route went east from Sydney to Wellington in New Zealand, followed by a large loop north into the Pacific calling at Tonga and Fiji, and then back westward to Cape York in Australia by the end of August.

Their arrival followed a nearly two-month voyage across three Great Lakes in the Naper brothers ' schooner, the Telegraph.

A voyage west followed, and he set up a homestead in east-central Alberta.

A series of calamities followed to test his faith: his wealth was stolen ; his servants died of a plague ; when the family took a sea voyage, the ship's captain kidnapped Eustace's wife Theopista ; and as Eustace crossed a river with his two sons Agapius and Theopistus, the children were taken away by a wolf and a lion.

The first part of the voyage would be devoted to a thorough exploration of the coast of Chile and the collection of animal, bird and plant specimens suitable for acclimatization in France, followed by a survey of the coasts from Peru to Mexico.

Amistad is a 1997 historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the true story of an uprising in 1839 by newly captured African slaves that took place aboard the ship La Amistad off the coast of Cuba, the subsequent voyage to the Northeastern United States, and the legal battle that followed their capture by a United States revenue cutter.

Bigger and better boats followed: by 1895 he was taking the half-deck Marguerite across the Channel and in 1897 there was a long cruise to the Frisian Islands, Norderney and the Baltic with his brother Henry in the thirty-foot cutter Vixen: a voyage he repeated in the following spring.

It followed the training of Canadian journalist and actor Andrew Younghusband on an 18-month sail training voyage around the World, on the barque Picton Castle.

It followed closely the route of the first voyage but the Treasure Fleet established entrepots ( warehouses ) and stockades along their route to facilitate trade and storage of goods.

Thoughts on the possibility of transmutation of species which he recorded in 1836 towards the end of his five-year voyage on the Beagle were followed on his return by findings and work which led him to conceive of his theory in September 1838.

By the 1840s Darwin became friends with the young botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, who had followed his father into that science, and after going on a survey voyage used his contacts to eventually find a position.

By the 1840s Darwin became friends with the young botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker who had followed his father into the science, and after going on a survey voyage used his contacts to eventually find a position.

His voyage to Canada and other parts of the Americas was followed by his son Sebastiano Caboto and Janus Verrazanus ( Giovanni da Verrazzano ).

Her travel from Belfast to Fairbanks included a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on what she later described as " a filthy boat " and a cross-country journey by train to Seattle, where she boarded a steamer bound for Valdez, Alaska, followed by over a month's winter travel by horse-drawn sleigh and dogsled to Fairbanks, staying at roadhouses along the way.

His first voyage of training was completed in the steamer Independencia, with sail and rigging maneuvers, followed later by practice in seamanship and artillery.

Triton completed its circumnavigation of the globe, after an 84-day voyage that followed the route of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition of 1519 – 1522.

She carried, besides her captain, a crew of twenty-one and provisions for a voyage of exploration of the Arctic waters of North America.

During Thompson's 1811 voyage down the Columbia River he camped at the junction with the Snake River on July 9, 1811, and erected a pole and a notice claiming the country for Great Britain and stating the intention of the North West Company to build a trading post at the site.

It is possible that Saint Brendan, an Irish monk ( a Papar ) sailed past the islands during his North Atlantic voyage in the 6th century.

* 1620 – The Mayflower starts her voyage to North America

Landing at Blackman's Bay and later having the Dutch flag flown at North Bay, Tasman named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt in honour of Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies who had sent Tasman on his voyage of discovery in 1642.

* The RMS Titanic, a British ocean liner which was the largest and most elegant ship at that time, strikes an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic during its maiden voyage on 15 April 1912.

* June – September – Semyon Dezhnyov makes the first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait between Asia and North America.

Ships laden with wheat from North Africa sail 300 miles to Rome's port of Ostia in 3 days, and the 1, 000 mile voyage from Alexandria averages 13 days.

* May 19 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons ( taken by Cartier during his first voyage ).

King Henry VII commissioned John Cabot to lead a voyage to find a northern route to the Spice Islands of Asia ; this began the search for the North West Passage.

Her journey across the North Sea from The Hague to Margate was the only sea voyage she took in her life.

In 1497, sailing from the north on behalf of England, John Cabot landed on the North American coast, and a year later, Columbus's third voyage reached the South American coast.

Bering's first voyage was foiled by thick fog and ice, but in 1741 a second voyage by Bering and Aleksei Chirikov made sight of the North American mainland.

On 29 December 1724, Peter I of Russia asked Bering to command a voyage east, probably to map the lands ( and possibly seas ) between Russia's eastern boundary and the North America continent.

Instructions were left on how to proceed if North America was sighted during the voyage, which was scheduled to last three years.

Steller ensured the voyage recorded the wildlife it encountered, discovering and describing several species of plant and animal native to the North Pacific and North America during the expedition ( including the Steller sea cow and Steller's Jay ).

* 1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat, the world's first commercially successful steamboat, makes her maiden voyage.

* 1958: USS Nautilus completes the first ever voyage under the polar ice to the North Pole and back.

On his fourth voyage to North America, Hudson worked his way around the west coast of Greenland and into the bay, mapping much of its eastern coast.

British seafaring Captain James Cook, midway through his third and final voyage of exploration in 1778, sailed along the west coast of North America aboard the, mapping the coast from California all the way to the Bering Strait.

Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano was killed and said to have been eaten by Carib natives on what is now Guadeloupe ( French West Indies ) in 1528 ( before called " Karukera " by the Amerindian people which means: the island of beautiful waters ), during his third voyage to North America, after exploring Florida, the Bahamas and the Lesser Antilles.

In regard to the Americas, the archaeological finds in L ' Anse aux Meadows in present-day northern Newfoundland, Canada — to which the investigators had been led partly by the 16th-century Skálholt Map — show there was a Viking settlement there ( around 1000 ) which, while unsuccessful and short-lived, predates by five centuries Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Caribbean islands in 1492 and John Cabot's voyage to North America in 1497.