Extraordinary Lives: Canadian and American People that Made Long Journeys

EXTRAORDINARY LIVES

Escrito por: Albert Shamir Galvá de Jesús

One-of-a-Kind Travelers

IN 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased all of “Louisiana” for about $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States. Jefferson sent two army officers-MERIWETHER LEWIS and WILLIAM CLARK-to explore the new land.

They left St. Louis, Missouri, in May of 1804. A17-year-old Shoshone woman named Sacajawea was one of their guides. The expedition survived river rapids, snake bites, hunger, grizzly bears, and bad weather. They crossed the great Rocky Mountains and the Cascade Range. They Columbia Rivers to the western sea.

In December of 1805, Clark wrote in his journal, “Great joy. We are in view of the ocean, this great Pacific Ocean”.

 

Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920) hoped to be the first explorer to cross Greenland, but Fridt Jof Nansen, a Norwegian explorer, beat him to it. Peary did reach the North Pole first, in April, 1909. This he did along with his assistant, Matthew Henson, and four Inuit Eskimos. Another American, Frederick Cook, claimed he had reached the pole a year earlier, but Peary was able to produce photographs and other convincing evidence that he was first. In 1910 he published his account of the expedition in his book, The North Pole.

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was born in Wales, ran away to America, and was adopted by a New Orleans merchant who gave him his name. He later worked as a reporter for The New York Herald and set out to find the British explorer, Dr. Livingstone, in Africa. After many months of searching, he greeted the explorer with the famous word, “Doctor Livingstone, I presume!”

Joshua Slocum (1844-1910) was a captain in the merchant navy. In 1886, he and his wife and children were shipwrecked off the coast of Brazil. Somehow they built a canoe and managed to paddle 8,000 kilometers back to New York. In 1895, he sailed alone from Boston. He returned three years later in triumph. He was the first person to sail singlehandedly around the world. In 1909, he set off on another solo voyage and was never seen again.

From: SUCCESS Communicating in English Michael Walker ADDISON-WESLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY  1995

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