* The Roman epic poet Gaius Valerius Flaccus dies, having written works that include the Argonautica, describing the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from the mythical land of Colchis.

In Apollonius's telling, the Symplegades were encountered on the way to the Golden Fleece and the Planktai were encountered on the return voyage.

The Symplegades were encountered on the way to the Golden Fleece and the Planctae were encountered on the return voyage.

:" When I first put pen to paper to write The Golden Bough I had no conception of the magnitude of the voyage on which I was embarking ; I thought only to explain a single rule of an ancient Italian priesthood.

Deptford and the docks are associated with the knighting of Sir Francis Drake by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind, the legend of Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cape for Elizabeth, Captain James Cook's third voyage aboard Resolution, and the mysterious murder of Christopher Marlowe in a house along Deptford Strand.

Gilbert had injured his foot on the frigate Squirrel and, on 2 September, came aboard the Golden Hind to have his foot bandaged and to discuss means of keeping the two little ships together on the voyage.

Myths often revolved around heroes and their actions, such as Heracles and his twelve labors, Odysseus and his voyage home, Jason and the quest for the Golden Fleece and Theseus and the Minotaur.

During the Canaries expedition, to beguile the tedium of his voyage, he composed his prose tale of Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Legacie, which, printed in 1590, afterwards furnished the story of Shakespeare's As You Like It.

* 1579: British Navigator Sir Francis Drake ( c. 1540-96 ) on a voyage around the world in the Golden Hind, claims California for Queen Elizabeth I.

The voyage had been deliberately and widely publicized, and while the Golden Rule was en route to Hawaii, the Atomic Energy Commission hastily issued a regulation banning US citizens from sailing into the Proving Grounds.

According to the Little Golden Book ' Fireball XL5 ' story book published in the USA in 1964 young Jonathan was lucky enough to be a passenger aboard Fireball XL5's maiden voyage which included an unscheduled stop at the planet Geminy.

On January 7, 1860, Adams and his menagerie departed from San Francisco on the clipper ship Golden Fleece on their way to New York City via Cape Horn, a three and one-half month voyage.

Labillardière's early voyages seem to have fired in him a passion for exploring foreign lands, for on his return to Paris he immediately began making plans for a voyage to the Near East, in order to study the plants described by physicians of the Islamic Golden Age.

Laden with the treasure from Cagafuego, Golden Hind continued its voyage, returning to Plymouth, on September 26, 1580.

In 1978, Greenpeace launched the original Rainbow Warrior, a, former fishing trawler named for the Cree legend that inspired early activist Robert Hunter on the first voyage to Amchitka.

The poem may have been inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration ( 1772 – 1775 ) of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean ; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook.

Critics have also opined that the poem may have been inspired by the voyage of Thomas James into the Arctic.

This partial success, although it did not find the desired passage to the Pacific Ocean, inspired Verrazzano ’ s final voyage, which left Dieppe early in 1528.

Doubtless it was Marco Polo's description that inspired Antonio Pigafetta, one of Magellan's companions, who wrote or had ghost-written an embroidered account of the circumglobal voyage ; in Pigafetta's account the home grounds of the roc were the seas of China.

Some of the people and situations may have been inspired by Gaspar de Carvajal's account of an earlier Amazonian expedition, although Carvajal was not on the historical voyage represented in the film.

Fatefully, the worsening vision inspired him to take a sea voyage.

The author of the original story, Gerhart Hauptmann, had been impressed by Unthan during a cross-Atlantic voyage and was inspired to write the character of Arthur Stoss, an armless virtuoso, based upon him.

This voyage inspired her book The City of the Sultan ( 1836 ).

After being nursed back to health from a suspected lung abscess by his wife, Chichester became inspired while writing his book Along the Clipper Way, which charts the voyage taken by 19th century wool clippers returning from Australia.

Steinbeck was later inspired by Stevenson in choosing to title his account of his cross-country voyage with a gray-haired poodle in the 1960s, Travels With Charley: In Search of America.

In 1828 appeared Olga, ou l ' orpheline russe, the plot of which had been inspired by a voyage he made to Russia in 1826.

This was also the voyage that carried Charles Darwin who was afterwards inspired to write his book about the theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species.

Jacques Arago joined Louis de Freycinet on his 1817 voyage around the world aboard the ship Uranie, which inspired his witty Voyage autour du monde.

Upon King Louis XVI's orders, Lapérouse departed Brest, France, in command of L ’ Astrolabe and La Boussole on 1 August 1785 on a scientific voyage of the Pacific inspired by the voyages of Cook.

The popularity of The Voyage of St. Brendan inspired Tim Severin to undertake a voyage using 5th century technology to demonstrate that the early Irish could have made it as far as North America.

** René de Pont-Jest: L ' Expédition du Katanga, d ' après les notes de voyage du marquis Christian de Bonchamps, published in: Edouard Charton ( editor ): Le Tour du Monde magazine ( 1892 – 3 ).

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.

Cover page of the English edition of Bougainville's travelogue ( 1772 ). In 1771, Bougainville published his travel log from the expedition under the title Le voyage autour du monde, par la frégate La Boudeuse, et la flûte L ' Étoile ( a. k. a. Voyage autour du monde and A Voyage Around the World ).

In 1968 Malle visited India and made a seven part documentary series L ’ Inde fantôme: Reflexions sur un voyage and a documentary film Calcutta, which was released in cinemas.

The L ' Astrolabe was on a voyage of exploration, which gave Stirling an opportunity to assess French interest in the region.

* Louis Antoine de Bougainville publishes Le voyage autour du monde, par la frégate La Boudeuse, et la flûte L ' Étoile.

Before the 1700s, the area known as present-day Pennsylvania was mapped by the Spanish and labeled L ' arcadia, or " wooded coast ", during Giovanni da Verrazzano's voyage in 1524.

* 1997: Le voyage by Edmond Baudoin, L ' Association

His L ' histoire du Canada ( 1636 ) included a revised and expanded Le grand voyage and Dictionnaire de la langue huronne ( Dictionary of the Huron Language ).

Even Philip L. Barbour, ( who was obsessively anti-Wingfield ), wrote: " John Smith was unaware, always, of the importance of the lever-the legal and financial backing that got the voyage going.

( L ’ expédition de Lapérouse, 1785 – 1788, réplique française au voyage de Cook ).