Sublime

Et voici que le miracle se produit. Criant et gesticulant les indigènes à demi-nus entourent Henrique, et soudain l’esclave malais s’arrête étonné. Car il a saisi quelques paroles. Il a compris ce que ces gens lui disent, ce qu’ils lui demandent. Arraché depuis des années à son pays, il vient d’entendre des mots de son dialecte. Moment inoubliable

one must look beyond Alaska, to the bald-rock canyons of southern Utah. There, in 1934, a peculiar twenty-year-old boy walked into the desert and never came out. His name was Everett Ruess.

The most ambitious publishing effort of his career was launched, a work of ten volumes encompassing the entire natural history of the United States. It was his “endeavor to make myself understood by all.”

L’équipage était ravi, la météo était enfin favorable pour que l’on passe le Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Jusqu’à présent, nous n’avions exploré que la côte ouest de l’Afrique du Sud, baignée par l’océan Atlantique. Désormais, on rêvait de l’océan Indien. Ces deux océans sont des frères ennemis. L’Atlantique Sud et son eau froide rencontrait l’Indien au

All this had been discussed and discussed again. And though the Caird’s chances of actually reaching South Georgia were remote, a great many men genuinely wanted to be taken along. The prospect of staying behind, of waiting and not knowing, of possibly wintering on this hateful island was far from attractive. Shackleton had already made up his mind

He was taken ashore on a stretcher and died in London three weeks later.