Sublime

The papar risked their lives—and lost them in untold droves—not in the pursuit of wealth or personal glory or to claim new lands in the name of any despot. As the great arctic explorer and Nobel laureate Fridtjof Nansen points out, “these remarkable voyages were…undertaken chiefly from the wish to find lonely places, where these anchorites might dw

it was also used by one of her favourite martyr-saints—the now Blessed Théophane Vénard. On the manuscript of her Autobiography she set the title: "The Story of the Springtime of a little white Flower," and in truth such it was, for long ere the rigours of life's winter came round, the Flower was blossoming in Paradise.

Au bout de quelques heures un échange actif commence déjà entre les indigènes et les visiteurs. Enfin le brave Pigafetta est dans son élément ! Pendant les onze semaines qu’a duré la traversée il n’a pas eu grand chose à raconter : à peine quelques petites histoires de requins et d’oiseaux étranges. Il semble même n’avoir pas été au courant de l’ar

There had been years of planning, and now, just as my solo was starting in earnest, the whole narrative changed. Glancing for a minute at the satellite image map, I searched for an alternate path. I mentally recited the mantra that I knew to be true after years of experience—that the plan falling apart is a natural part of any worthwhile adventure.