Word: expeditioners
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Through flashbacks we see what Almasy is trying to remember--or trying to keep others from discovering. Brilliant and aloof, commanding many languages, he was part of a British cartography expedition in the Sahara. There he meets Katharine (Kristin Scott Thomas), the cool, sure wife of a member of the...
You have to wade through nearly 10 hours of the 12 1/2-hour documentary series The West--past Lewis and Clark's expedition and the gold rush and Brigham Young and George Armstrong Custer--to reach the man who historian Richard White contends is "the one true genius the 19th century...
Now, though, Cheyenne River is being swept up in the quiet revolution--both a temperance movement and a traditional, spiritual revival--that is moving across many reservations. The four-year teepee-camp program is being funded by an $803,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of...
The jar was just an old piece of pottery excavated on an archaeological expedition to Iran back in 1968, deposited in the University of Pennsylvania Museum and more or less forgotten. But when museum researcher Peter McGovern became fascinated by the origins of wine more than two decades later, the...
It is no surprise that Martin Cruz Smith, author of the Soviet-era Russian cop novel Gorky Park, has written the most interesting and richly textured crime story of the season. What is unexpected about Rose (Random House; 364 pages; $25) is its setting: not the disorder of present-day...