Word: expeditioners
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Chagnon, a member of Neel's 1968 expedition, said last week he had yet to see galleys either of the book or of an excerpt scheduled to be published next week in the New Yorker magazine. The New Yorker did offer to interview him, but he declined. In a widely...
Keep in mind, of course, that environmental lobbyists with an eye on Detroit have had a frustrating decade; they're ready to embrace just about any progress with open arms. For years now, their concerns have been ignored by auto executives who insisted there was no way to improve fuel...
Two hundred years later, you can re-live that historic exploration--without the danger or the dogmeat--by taking the seven-day rail-and-road tour "In the Path of Lewis and Clark." Traveling part of the way by motor coach and the remainder aboard the American Spirit--a daylight...
But almost nothing went well. The Egyptians were not grateful to be liberated. Nelson happened by, and destroyed the entire French fleet in the Bay of Abukir off Alexandria, leaving Napoleon and his 36,000-man expedition stranded among scorpions and Mamelukes.
I don't normally get misty-eyed about the 200th anniversaries of stupid military invasions. But it is now a couple of centuries since Napoleon's expedition into Egypt fell apart completely. I feel it would be a shame if such memorable idiocy were to pass into darkness without a...