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Prince Charles called the idea "mad but marvelous" when the explorers first set off. Last week, when Sir Ranulph Fiennes, 38, and Charles Burton, 40, returned to England after a threeyear, 35,000-mile trip around the world via the North and South Poles, the Prince hailed their "courage, endurance, will power and sheer bloodymindedness." To the cheers of the 10,000 people who thronged the dockside as their ship, the Benjamin Bowring, sailed up the Thames to Greenwich, Fiennes responded, "Some people would say that we have been lucky, but I would say God has been good...
...sure, Fiennes and Burton had benefited from the largesse of scores of corporations and from technological support that did not exist when Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, became the first man to travel to the South Pole in 1911. In addition to the Benjamin Bowring, the Transglobe Expedition had at its disposal everything from Land Rovers to a Boston Whaler, from short-wave radios to a satellite navigation system. But it did not take long for the team to discover the limits of these aids. As Fiennes told TIME last week, "If you set out and plan your journey into...
...volunteer effort was in the planning for seven years after Fiennes' wife Virginia first proposed it to her husband, whose previous ventures had included a Hovercraft expedition on the White Nile. Fiennes met Burton, a former army corporal, at a party, and he agreed to go along on a training mission to the Arctic in 1977. An advertisement for a deck hand turned up Anthony Bowring, a seaman, who tracked down a 27-year-old polar ship. Bowring then persuaded his father's insurance firm, C.T. Bowring, and a New York insurance company to buy the ship...
Setting out from England on Sept. 2, 1979, the Transglobe Expedition tried to follow the Greenwich meridian, the imaginary line that marks 0° longitude. Fiennes and Burton, who were joined by a third explorer, Oliver Shepard, 37, for the first half of the journey, crossed the Sahara by Land Rover before meeting their ship in the Ivory Coast. In Antarctica, the three men proceeded to cross the continent, including more than 1,000 miles of previously uncharted icecap, by snowmobile in a record 66 days. After reaching the South Pole, the team ascended and descended...
...election of Ronald Reagan, argues Burton Pines, was the political culmination of a rising tide of popular disenchantment with the dogmas of postwar American liberalism. In a comprehensive and sympathetic survey of the social and economic issues that have galvanized conservatives, neoconservatives, evangelicals, Moral Majority members and the New Right, Pines finds the source of this counterrevolution in the backyards of millions of resentful Americans. "Resurgent traditionalism," he writes, "is most dynamic at the grass roots, in life's very private, yet most critical sectors. There, legions of Americans are going back to basics in education, back to Scripture...