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HIDAYAT, MUHAMAD RIDZKI, and Achmad Mujab Masykur. "EXPERIENCES TO GO ON INTERNATIONAL EXPEDITIONS (Study of Phenomenology in Students Outdoor Club)." Jurnal EMPATI 6, no. 4 (March 26, 2018): 72–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/empati.2017.19990.
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Popularity of outdoor activities has been increasing significantly in the past 15 to 20 years across the world. It has also became the fastest growing among any other sporting activities (Monasterio, Alamri dan Mei-Dan, 2014). Mahasiswa Pecinta Alam or shorten as Mapala (Indonesian term for college students who joined outdoor or adventure club) who are born in this nation, have desire to explore and brought up Indonesia’s name internationally through their adventure activities. The desire later manifested into a form of expedition. Expedition defined as a journey of scientific research and investigation particularly in less known areas. An expedition is hereby interesting to be researched since there are only a few literatures that discussed about this discourse. This research is using qualitative phenomenology approach. Furthermore in this research, interview and field notes or recording are being used for data collection procedures. All collected datas later analysed with DFI data explication technique which divided the experience to go on an international expedition in four episodes. The subjects in this research consist of three person approched by purposive technique. All of the three subjects are member of Mapala with three different type of international expeditions which are; kayaking (L, 21, Palapsi UGM), wall climbing (L, 23, Astacala Tel-U), and iceberg climbing (P, 19, Mapagama UGM). The overall result of this research shows how management and functionality of team are foremost important due to the success of an expedition. Aside of this aspect, the research also shows that tthere are changes within the subjects’ notably before the expedition until aterwards. The changes can be analysed with triadic reciprocal causation Bandura model
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Stonehouse, Paul, and Nate Furman. "A Reverence for Time: Mindful Approaches to Land-based Travel Calculations." Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership 14, no. 3 (August 9, 2022): 107–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.18666/jorel-2022-11195.
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How long will it take to get from “Point A” to “Point B”? Estimating the answer to this question is essential for outdoor leaders to accurately and safely manage their outdoor adventure education course. By being able to carefully estimate the amount of time needed to travel a particular route, over the course of a day or an entire expedition, outdoor leaders will be able to avoid unnecessary risk and provide ample time for other curricula and experiences. This paper describes several land-based travel calculation methods (including the less known Munter system recently added to www.caltopo.com’smapping functionality), and notes why they are essential for leading successful outdoor expeditions. Along the way the paper articulates the pedagogical relevance of time calculation models to leadership curriculum and anticipates critiques related to the “McDonaldization” of outdoor adventure education.
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St Pierre, L., A. Allan, S. Staton, C. Pattinson, K. Thorpe, and S. Smith. "Severe sleep restriction in expedition adventure race competitors." Sleep Medicine 40 (December 2017): e10-e11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2017.11.023.
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Gargano, Virginie, and Daniel Turcotte. "Helping factors in an outdoor adventure program." Journal of Social Work 21, no. 1 (July 15, 2019): 88–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468017319863708.
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Summary A number of studies have addressed outdoor and adventure programs over the past 50 years. Despite empirical evidence that demonstrates the personal benefits of group interventions, research investigating the mechanisms responsible for these effects is scarce. This is particularly so for groups in natural outdoor and adventure settings. There is therefore a need to improve our understanding of the processes involved. This research focused on personal and interpersonal processes that occurred during an outdoor group expedition. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 23 subjects aged between 17 and 21 who had participated in an 18-day expedition. The data are examined through a theoretical framework known as “helping factors” often used when studying benefits of a group intervention. Findings The results show that participation in the program promoted self-understanding, interpersonal learning, socializing techniques, and cohesion. Altruism, imitative behavior, universality, and imparting information were also important. As for existential factors, corrective recapitulation of the family, catharsis, and hope, these were rarely mentioned if not absent. Applications The results give a better understanding of the helping factors in such programs and of their potential role in the group process, as well as their application in social work practice.
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Mykletun, Reidar J., and Laura Mazza. "Psychosocial benefits from participating in an adventure expedition race." Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal 6, no. 5 (November 14, 2016): 542–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sbm-09-2016-0047.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify psychosocial benefits that the race participants gained from participating in an adventure race (AR). The sample studied were participants of the Patagonian Expedition Race (PER), a multi-day AR that takes place in Chilean Patagonia. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected in the 2012 prior to, during, and after the event. Observations and semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven four-member teams. Video material and open-ended questionnaires from 2010 to 2012 editions of the event were analysed for validating the findings from the 2012 race study. Interview and observation data were analysed in four steps, including preparation phase (transcription of interviews), exploration phase (searching for themes), reduction phase, and interpretation. Notes from observations and other sources were added to the data during phase 2. Findings Six different types of psychosocial benefits of the PER participants emerged from the data analysis: the “flow” experience including immersion into the nature; the play state and changes between telic and para-telic meta-motivational states; exploration and tourist aspects; the creation of “communitas”, friendships, trust, and other social aspects; felt self-change; and the transferability of the benefits acquired to daily life. Research limitations/implications The conclusions are limited by the sample size and the case study design. Hence, the study should be repeated in other adventure and expedition race settings and contrasted to studies in shorter ARs as well as in other types of small team sports. Practical implications The ARs gives opportunities for unique experiences of coping with nature in extreme conditions, thus developing personal insight and outdoor survival skills. The skills and personal development were applicable to everyday life. Moreover, similar races may be organized in different settings to provide varied options for athletes to participate in such races. Social implications The benefits gained by the participants are considered useful for coping with demands in working life. This applied especially to enhanced self-insights, attitudes towards hindrances and obstacles, and teamwork skills. The race might be used as parts of training for leaders in organizations of all kinds. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first research paper applying the concept of psychosocial benefits when exploring the outcomes that athletes gain from their AR participation.
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McLaughlin, Kyle A., David A. Townes, Ian S. Wedmore, Robert T. Billingsley, Chad D. Listrom, and Leslie D. Iverson. "Pattern of Injury and Illness During Expedition-Length Adventure Races." Wilderness and Environmental Medicine 17, no. 3 (2006): 158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1580/pr29-05.
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Evans, John, and Philip M. Smith. "Mt. Vinson and the evolution of US policy on Antarctic mountaineering, 1960–1966." Polar Record 50, no. 3 (April 12, 2013): 277–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247413000211.
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ABSTRACTThe full extent of the height and scale of the Sentinel Range, Antarctica, was not known until reconnaissance flights and scientific traverses in the International Geophysical Year (IGY), 1957–1958. These explorations revealed the range to be twenty miles in length, with a large number of high peaks culminating in Mt. Vinson, the highest on the Antarctic continent at nearly 4900 meters. The discoveries captured the interest of the U.S. and world mountaineering communities setting off a competition to achieve the first climb of Vinson. The challenge was tempered only by the range's remoteness from the coast of Antarctica and the formidable logistics of mounting a mountaineering expedition. The US which had the most advanced ski-equipped cargo aircraft, had an established post-IGY policy that prohibited adventure expeditions that could divert logistic resources from the scientific programme. This paper discusses Mt. Vinson competition within the US and international climbing communities, mounting national pressures to achieve the first climb, and a reversal in policy by the US Antarctic Policy Group that resulted in the 1966–1967 American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition's first ascents of Vinson and five other high peaks. Today, between 100 and 200 persons climb Mt. Vinson each austral summer.
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Reynolds, Thomas M., Mathew W. P. Morreau, Lynne John, and Matthew S. Jeans. "One Foot After Another—Fungal Foot Issues in Expedition Adventure Racing." Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 30, no. 1 (March 2019): 93–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2018.11.007.
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Townes, David A., Timothy S. Talbot, Ian S. Wedmore, and Robert Billingsly. "Event medicine: injury and illness during an expedition-length adventure race." Journal of Emergency Medicine 27, no. 2 (August 2004): 161–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2004.02.018.
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Barr, William. "Discovery of one of Sir John Franklin's ships." Polar Record 51, no. 1 (October 15, 2014): 107–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247414000758.
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In the summer of 2014 a major search was mounted in the Canadian Arctic for H.M.S.ErebusandTerror, the ships of Sir John Franklin's expedition, the aim of which was to make a transit of the northwest passage. Beset in the ice to the northwest of King William Island in the summer of 1846, they were abandoned there by the 105 surviving members of their crews in the summer of 1848. The officers and men hoped to walk south to the mouth of the Back River, presumably to ascend that river in the hope of reaching the nearest Hudson's Bay Company's post at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake. None of them survived. The 2014 expedition, the Victoria Strait Expedition, mounted by a consortium which included Parks Canada, the Canadian Coast Guard, the Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the Arctic Research Foundation, and One Ocean Adventure, had four ships at its disposal including the Canadian Coast Guard's icebreakerSir Wilfrid Laurier(Captain Bill Noon) and the Navy's HMCSKingston.
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Talbot, Timothy S., David A. Townes, and Ian S. Wedmore. "To Air Is Human: Altitude Illness During an Expedition Length Adventure Race☆☆☆." Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 15, no. 2 (June 2004): 90–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1580/1080-6032(2004)015[0090:taihai]2.0.co;2.
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Chen, Shiwei. "The Making of a Dream: The Sino-American Expedition to Mount Amne Machin in 1948." Modern Asian Studies 37, no. 3 (June 25, 2003): 709–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x0300307x.
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For centuries, China has remained as a place in many Americans' shadowy dreams where fortunes and careers could be made through commerce, industry, religion, education, and adventure. American businessmen and their domestic backers appreciated China's richly endowed natural resources and its untapped market of 400 million customers, looking forward to making immense profits from business investment and commercial establishments. Since the arrival of the first American merchant ship, Empress of China, in Canton in 1784, generation after generation of American businessmen and adventurers landed in the Middle Kingdom to begin their enterprises by foreseeing a promising future for mercantile advantage. In this China drive, individual businessmen outside the U.S. government played a significant role in linking the two countries and peoples through a variety of activities. Some of them were particularly responsible for conveying their ideas, directly or indirectly, to government policy makers in Washington, exerting profound influence on the U.S. foreign policy toward East Asia. Some of them made great efforts to assist in the modernization of China by devoting their lives and resources, turning themselves into friends of China. Some of them, however, played games as adventurers seeking power and wealth in a fraudulent way and creating unexpected occasions for political confrontations and diplomatic conflicts in Sino-American relations. In all of these multi-dimensional interactions, China, a country too weak to control its own affairs in the nineteenth-century and the first half of the twentieth-century, provided a fantastic place for Americans to range freely, exercising their talents for good or evil to the fullest.
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Riffenburgh, Beau. "Jules Verne and the conquest of the polar regions." Polar Record 27, no. 162 (July 1991): 237–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400012638.
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AbstractLike many of his contemporaries, the popular novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905) was deeply influenced by the geographical explorations of the mid 19th century. Of more than 60 novels published from 1855 onward in his series Les voyages extraordinaires, which involved tales of adventure, travel, geographical discovery or scientific or technological innovation, 11 included scenes or themes of polar travel. Verne clearly relied for his material and inspiration on current or recently-published polar expedition narratives of the Victorian era.
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Hall, John. "An emerging science of the mind in 1898." History & Philosophy of Psychology 20, no. 1 (November 2019): 34–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpshpp.2019.20.1.34.
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This article is an extended review ofHeadhunters: The search for a science of the mind, by Ben Shephard. Shephard realised while preparing his 2002 bookA war of nervesthat, although the role of W.H.R. Rivers was ever present in his reading around the First World War, he was not the only psychologist to have treated war-shocked soldiers. This second book is both an account of an anthropological-psychological expedition and adventure, and the consequences of that expedition for the growth of psychology over the following years, including the impact of the First World War. The narrative is driven by the interplay between the key players in that project, here focusing on the roles of William McDougall, Charles Myers and William Rivers, and the intellectual questions and disputes of their day which underpin our present-day disciplines of anthropology, neurology, psychiatry and psychology.
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BRONZA, BORO. "PREPARATIONS OF THE AUSTRIAN EXPEDITION TOWARDS INDIA 1775-1776." ИСТРАЖИВАЊА, no. 29 (December 26, 2018): 63–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.19090/i.2018.29.63-77.
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During the second half of the 18th century Austria’s trade policy sought to restore ties to India and other parts of Asia that had successfully existed during the period of the Ostend Company (1722-1731). In this respect, the increasingly successful activity of the British East India Company was an example for the Vienna government in indicating of which lucrative possibilities lay in the proper development of trade in the east. Austria soon decided to try to organize trade expeditions to India itself and the British experience was of primary importance to it. An indispensable link for the launch of such ventures was the opportunity for the representatives of the Austrian diplomatic network to meet directly with individuals from the group of traders who had already had extensive experience in trade with India. This was exactly the case in London in 1774, when the Austrian Ambassador Ludovico Luigi Carlo Maria di Barbiano di Belgiojoso met one of the most famous European entrepreneurs of the second half of the 18th century, William Bolts. It was the beginning of a new great Austrian adventure in Asia and at the same time an attempt to radically redefine the essential nature of the Habsburg position and philosophy. Immediately after the Austrian diplomatic network came into contact with Bolts, the sophisticated preparations of the expedition began, before the final take off in 1776.
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McConnell, Robert M. "Solving Environmental Problems Caused by Adventure Travel in Developing Countries: The Everest Environmental Expedition." Mountain Research and Development 11, no. 4 (November 1991): 359. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3673719.
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Greffrath, Gustav, Charle Meyer, Herman Strydom, and Suria Ellis. "Centre‐based and expedition‐based (wilderness) adventure experiential learning regarding personal effectiveness: an explorative enquiry." Leisure Studies 30, no. 3 (July 2011): 345–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2011.552623.
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Doran, Adele, and Gill Pomfret. "Exploring efficacy in personal constraint negotiation: An ethnography of mountaineering tourists." Tourist Studies 19, no. 4 (April 1, 2019): 475–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468797619837965.
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Limited work has explored the relationship between efficacy and personal constraint negotiation for adventure tourists, yet efficacy is pivotal to successful activity participation as it influences people’s perceived ability to cope with constraints, and their decision to use negotiation strategies. This article explores these themes with participants of a commercially organised mountaineering expedition. Phenomenology-based ethnography was adopted to appreciate the social and cultural mountaineering setting from an emic perspective. Ethnography is already being used to understand adventure participation, yet there is considerable scope to employ it further through researchers immersing themselves into the experience. The findings capture the interaction between the ethnographer and the group members, and provide an embodied account using their lived experiences. Findings reveal that personal mountaineering skills, personal fitness, altitude sickness and fatigue were the four key types of personal constraint. Self-efficacy, negotiation-efficacy and other factors, such as hardiness and motivation, influenced the effectiveness of negotiation strategies. Training, rest days, personal health and positive self-talk were negotiation strategies. A conceptual model illustrates these results and demonstrates the interplay between efficacy and the personal constraint negotiation journey for led mountaineers.
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Afeadie, Philip Atsu. "The Semolika Expedition of 1904: A Participant Account." History in Africa 31 (2004): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361541300003375.
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British imperialism in west Africa during the late nineteenth century is known to be the product of the interrelations between expansionist forces at the center of empire and those at the periphery on the one hand, and the relationship between the peripheral forces and African circumstances on the other hand. Expansionist forces at Whitehall included nationalistic sentiments and inter-European rivalry, economic considerations, and public reactions to these motivations. Of the expansionist forces at the outposts of empire, pressure from commercial interest groups and the activities of the men on the spot are notable.Indeed, the work of the military personnel on the outposts of empire was instrumental to British territorial annexations. As officers and non-commissioned officers to the colonial army of the West African Frontier Force (WAFF), the British personnel hailed from all rungs of society, and seconded from metropolitan regiments into active service in West Africa. Their motivations largely included economic interests, sport and adventure, while the African auxiliaries enlisted out of economic considerations. Naturally, the men on the spot were indispensable to British expansion, as they particularly constituted a reliable source of information for policymakers at home. They also subscribed with their superiors to the use of force to maintain political supremacy on the frontiers of empire. The men on the spot controlled the timing, pace, and extent of British military imperialism. However, they had to reckon with indigenous response, as their prerogatives met challenges in African interests and concerns, such as territorial inviolability and non-interference in their internal affairs. This interplay of military imperialism and African response is aptly demonstrated in the British encounter with the Semolika in Northern Nigeria.
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Parkes, Ruth. "THE ‘ARGONAUTIC’ EXPEDITION OF THE ARGIVES: MODELS OF HEROISM IN STATIUS'THEBAID." Classical Quarterly 64, no. 2 (November 20, 2014): 778–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838814000354.
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While Statius' decision to treat events in landlocked Thebes offered limited opportunity to integrate into his poem a maritime episode, which had become a staple epic ingredient by the first centurya.d.,theThebaidis dotted with references to the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece, including a narrative flashback of the crew's time at Lemnos (Theb. 5.335–498). Following in a long tradition of cross-contamination between Argonautic and Theban literary texts (as shown by, for example, the ApollonianArgonautica's use of Antimachus'Thebaid), Statius' poem also evokes works of literature which narrate the legend, notably theArgonauticasof Apollonius Rhodius and Valerius Flaccus. A lack of scholarly focus on this latter area has generally led to a piecemeal scrutiny of individual allusive passages rather than a systematic treatment. However, Stover's recent paper paves the way for a more productive approach through its contention that theThebaidmakes widespread use of the mythic subject matter: ‘It … appears that Statius frequently appropriates the Argonautic tradition and that he does so largely to present the Argives as quasi Argonauts. This suggests that their adventure to conquer Thebes is analogous to the Argonauts’ voyage to Colchis.'
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Kathrein, Jakob Franz. "Indigene und Cook. Der Tahitianer Omai (1751–1780) als Fallbeispiel für das Konzept des „Edlen Wilden“?" historia.scribere, no. 9 (June 9, 2017): 243. http://dx.doi.org/10.15203/historia.scribere.9.555.
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During James Cook’s second voyage of discovery, a young Tahitian by the name of Omai (1751–1780) was taken aboard the Adventure, one of the two ships of this expedition. Omai travelled to England, where he was introduced into the British Upper Class and much admired as a living example of a noble and pure South Sea islander in tune with Mother Nature. Omai became accepted in the highest society circles, was painted by several great artists of the time and became part of the collective hype surrounding James Cook’s voyages of discovery and the new experiences with non-European cultures. This paper compares available scientific literature on this topic and aims to analyze the role of Omai as a historical figure and as the personification of the idealized European concept of the noble savage.
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Coester, Lee Anne. "Measurement from the Bottom of the World to the Middle School Classroom." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 9, no. 8 (April 2004): 407–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mtms.9.8.0407.
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Take an incredible true adventure; add a lot of estimation and hands-on measurement; stir in parts of reading, writing, history, geography, and science; and one has the recipe for a powerful mathematics lesson. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World is an extraordinary true story by Jennifer Armstrong. The book follows the story of Ernest Shackleton and 27 men who set out in 1914 to become the first people to cross Antarctica. Instead, their ship, the Endurance, became trapped in the ice and sank, leaving the crew who had no way to communicate with the outside world to find a way back to civilization. They made their way across ice floes and wild seas to an island where 22 of the men made camp to wait. Shackleton and 5 of his crew then set out in a 20-foot boat to cross 800 miles of ocean to find help. Nearly 2 years after the expedition began, the last of the crew were rescued, and all 28 men survived! For a week, in lieu of regular mathematics class and the time when teacher Karen Grokett normally reads to her sixth-grade students at Chase County Middle School in Strong City, Kansas, we went on a daily mathematics adventure. By doing a little planning and by inviting questions to encourage student inquiry, the lesson took on a remarkable life of its own.
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CROSSLEY, JOHN N. "An unexpected excursion: The first account of Spaniards in Ayutthaya (1585)." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 30, no. 2 (March 13, 2020): 365–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186319000385.
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AbstractAlthough the Portuguese established contact with Thailand soon after their conquest of Melaka in 1511, it was thought that Spaniards did not go there until the disastrous expedition of Diego Belloso in 1596. However, in a little-known manuscript from about 1600 there is an account of an inadvertent visit by a small group of Spaniards in 1585, after they had been blown off course trying to return to Manila from Macao. This includes a description of Ayutthaya, presented here, together with an account of the trials and tribulations they endured in getting back to Manila. The Spaniards had gone to Macao with the Jesuit Alonso Sánchez, ostensibly to sort out a mutiny on a galleon bound for Acapulco, but Sánchez also wanted to pursue his agenda of converting China to Christianity and his reports do not mention this extraordinary adventure of some of his companions.
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Regmi, Dipendra Raj. "Heroic Self-discovery of the Shepherd in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist." Outlook: Journal of English Studies 11 (July 1, 2020): 99–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ojes.v11i0.36364.
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This paper examines the heroic self-discovery of a common shepherd in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist (1988) through the concept of popular culture. Santiago, the protagonist, abandons his home and family in teenage for a mysterious hidden treasure. What are the reasons that make him to undertake an adventurous journey from the known to the unknown land? So this paper draws on ideas from Marshall W. Fishwick and Joseph Campbell to respond the shepherd’s journey in order to substantiate his expedition as an adventure of the hero. Santiago’s journey of self- discovery can be analyzed in the theoretical frame of the hero journey and the quest of myth. Therefore, Santiago’s journey from Andalusia to Africa in search of a hidden treasure is uncommon because he begins his journey in a response to an exotic recurring dream where a child summons him to the Pyramids of Egypt. This is the reason why his journey differs from the celebrities, artists, politicians, and mythical heroes.
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Dyulgerov, Nikola. "Boniface of Montferrat and His Activities in the Balkan Peninsula." Istoriya-History 29, no. 1 (January 20, 2021): 60–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.53656/his2021-1-4-bonif.
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Planned as an expedition to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims, the Fourth Crusade became a crushing weapon, destroying Byzantium and changing the fate of the Balkans. Its leader marquis Boniface of Montferrat was one of the people, who had the greatest influence in directing the pilgrims to Constantinople. Fulfilling his vassal duty to Philip of Swabia and pursuing his ambition to restore the lands and authority of his brothers in Byzantium, he set out for the East. A brave knight, an influential seigneur, an experienced military leader, but an unscrupulous and a cruel politician, he lost the “battle” for the imperial crown of Constantinople, but won Thessaloniki. There he set the beginning of a new crusader state, which covered the lands from the Rhodope Mountains to the Peloponnese peninsula. However, his eastern adventure ended tragically. Underestimating the force and the abilities of the Bulgarians, he lost his life in battle against them.
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Dyulgerov, Nikola. "Boniface of Montferrat and His Activities in the Balkan Peninsula." Istoriya-History 29, no. 1 (January 20, 2021): 60–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.53656/his2021-1-4-bonif.
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Planned as an expedition to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims, the Fourth Crusade became a crushing weapon, destroying Byzantium and changing the fate of the Balkans. Its leader marquis Boniface of Montferrat was one of the people, who had the greatest influence in directing the pilgrims to Constantinople. Fulfilling his vassal duty to Philip of Swabia and pursuing his ambition to restore the lands and authority of his brothers in Byzantium, he set out for the East. A brave knight, an influential seigneur, an experienced military leader, but an unscrupulous and a cruel politician, he lost the “battle” for the imperial crown of Constantinople, but won Thessaloniki. There he set the beginning of a new crusader state, which covered the lands from the Rhodope Mountains to the Peloponnese peninsula. However, his eastern adventure ended tragically. Underestimating the force and the abilities of the Bulgarians, he lost his life in battle against them.
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Soares, Fernanda Codevilla, and Andrés Zarankin. "Sensing Antarctica." Revista Arqueologia Pública 14, no. 1 (June 22, 2020): 182–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/rap.v14i1.8660182.
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Full of superlatives, the Antarctic continent has been represented as the most desert, coldest and wildest location of all places on earth; an apt location for archeology, a discipline often associated with adventure. To reflect on these considerations and critique the traditional ways of presenting Archaeology and Antarctica in science, LEACH-UFMG has proposed an alternative mediation that encourages communication with both. Using exhibits, plays, comic books, sticker albums, among others, the idea is to use the elements that normally make Antarctica and Archaeology interesting for people without, however, oversimplifying. Specifically in this paper we will report an experience that we had at Espaço do Conhecimento UFMG which was a sensorial exhibit, resulting from the collaborative work of Mediantar (Antarctica Medicine), Mycoantar (Antarctica Microbiology) and “White Landscape” (Antarctic Archaeology and Anthropology) projects, all carried out by UFMG. This exhibit called “Antarctic expedition” was on display from December 7th 2017 to May 20th 2018 and was visited by 30573 people.
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Rowland, C. "Investigating hormonal adaptations to high altitude: five years of Defence Medical Services expeditions." Journal of The Royal Naval Medical Service 98, no. 3 (December 2012): 6–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jrnms-98-6.
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AbstractThe military has a tradition of supporting and promoting scientific expeditions. The past five years have witnessed a series of Defence Medical Service (DMS) expeditions to mountainous areas of the world, which set out with the dual purpose of researching high altitude human physiology and promoting the uptake of adventurous pursuits within the military. Beginning with exercise Medical Sentinel to Aconcagua, Argentina, in 2007, members of the DMS have since conducted two expeditions to the Himalayas (expedition Imja Tse, 2009 and expedition Khumbu Ramble, 2011) before returning to South America, to the Cordillera Real mountain range in Bolivia, on expedition Bolivian Venture, in late May 2012. This article aims to provide a brief background to the rationale behind these expeditions, a brief description of our understanding of altitude sickness and a history of the adventures that members of the Defence Medical Services have been having contributing to that understanding.
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Harper, Nevin J. "Locating Self in Place During a Study Abroad Experience: Emerging Adults, Global Awareness, and the Andes." Journal of Experiential Education 41, no. 3 (March 16, 2018): 295–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1053825918761995.
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Background: College students generally participate in study abroad experiences (SAE) at times of identity and value development as emerging adults. SAE has been criticized as perpetuating colonial acts through the project of globalization. Purpose: This research examined how participants construct meaning about place(s) and how this meaning relates to their sense of self during a 3-week expedition-style SAE in the Bolivian Andes. Methodology/Approach: SAE included place-based learning activities, cultural immersion, service projects, adventure travel, and two concurrent academic courses. Data were gathered from eight participants through written journal assignments, researcher observations, and field notes. Findings/Conclusions: Five themes emerged: personal growth, a multiplicity of meaning, privilege and global perspective, an urban-rural effect, and a taste for more. The social context and comfort–discomfort continuum are discussed as influencing factors. Implications: Findings suggest a place-based SAE can influence value formation and reflective practice of emerging adults. While findings echo SAE as a privileged experience, the question of latent effects of SAE on emerging adult social justice perspectives is raised.
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Lebedev, Sergei, Raffaele Bonadio, Clara Gómez-García, Janneke I. de Laat, Laura Bérdi, Bruna Chagas de Melo, Daniel Farrell, et al. "Education and public engagement using an active research project: lessons and recipes from the SEA-SEIS North Atlantic Expedition's programme for Irish schools." Geoscience Communication 2, no. 2 (October 11, 2019): 143–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gc-2-143-2019.
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Abstract. An exciting research project, for example with an unusual field component, presents a unique opportunity for education and public engagement (EPE). The adventure aspect of the fieldwork and the drive and creativity of the researchers can combine to produce effective, novel EPE approaches. Engagement with schools, in particular, can have a profound impact, showing the students how science works in practice, encouraging them to study science, and broadening their career perspectives. The project SEA-SEIS (Structure, Evolution And Seismicity of the Irish offshore, https://www.sea-seis.ie, last access: 6 October 2019) kicked off in 2018 with a 3-week expedition on the research vessel (RV) Celtic Explorer in the North Atlantic. Secondary and primary school students were invited to participate and help scientists in the research project, which got the students enthusiastically engaged. In a nation-wide competition before the expedition, schools from across Ireland gave names to each of the seismometers. During the expedition, teachers were invited to sign up for live, ship-to-class video link-ups, and 18 of these were conducted. The follow-up survey showed that the engagement was not only exciting but encouraged the students' interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and STEM-related careers. With most of the lead presenting scientists on the ship being female, both girls and boys in the classrooms were presented with engaging role models. After the expedition, the programme continued with follow-up, geoscience-themed competitions (a song-and-rap one for secondary and a drawing one for primary schools). Many of the programme's best ideas came from teachers, who were its key co-creators. The activities were developed by a diverse team including scientists and engineers, teachers, a journalist, and a sound artist. The programme's success in engaging and inspiring school students illustrates the EPE potential of active research projects. The programme shows how research projects and the researchers working on them are a rich resource for EPE, highlights the importance of an EPE team with diverse backgrounds and expertise, and demonstrates the value of co-creation by the EPE team, teachers, and school students. It also provides a template for a multifaceted EPE programme that school teachers can use with flexibility, without extra strain on their teaching schedules. The outcomes of an EPE programme coupled with research projects can include both an increase in the students' interest in STEM and STEM careers and an increase in the researchers' interest and proficiency in EPE.
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Tough, Alistair. "Papers of Frederick R. Burnham (1861-1947) in the Hoover Institution Archives." History in Africa 12 (1985): 385–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171734.
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Indian fighter, explorer, scout, soldier and hero: during Frederick Burnham's life he filled all of these roles. Consequently a myth grew up around him cultivated by various “real-life adventure story books” in which he featured, and his own autobiography in which he stressed the more adventurous aspects of his life. The adventurous aspects of his career are, indeed, not without significance. For example, it was Burnham who killed the Mlimo during the Ndebele War of 1897 and this action may well have had an important effect on the morale of Ndebele fighters. Nevertheless, Burnham's career as a mineral prospector, mining engineer, and business manager is as significant as his more publicized activities. In some instances the latter were, in fact, a consequence of his employment in the former.Born in the United States, Burnham was brought up in California. He received a limited formal education but in the course of his early working life in the western United States he acquired a knowledge of mining, particularly gold mining. From 1893 to 1897 he was in present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia. It was he who led the Northern Territories (BSA) Exploration Co. expedition which established for the outside world that major copper deposits existed in Central Africa.
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Havrylova, Havrylova. "TOURISM PRODUCT OF MYKOLAIV REGION: OPPORTUNITY AND INNOVATIONS." GEOGRAPHY AND TOURISM, no. 49 (2019): 56–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2308-135x.2019.49.56-64.
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Goal. The purpose of the article is consider the possibility of introducing innovations in relation to new or existing tourist products in Mykolaiv region. Method. In the process of writing the article, methods of theoretical analysis were used. Results. The article is devoted to the implementation and innovations of tourism product in Mykolaiv region. The possibilities of introducing innovations in relation to new or existing tourist products in the Mykolaiv region are considered. The types of innovations in tourism are analyzed, opportunities of tourist potential of Mykolayiv region are analyzed, perspective tourism types and priorities of development of the tourist market of Mykolayiv region are determined. Scientific novelty. We have revealed that the development of the tourist industry in Mykolaiv region requires the implementation of innovative technologies for the creation of high-quality competitive tourism products. The types of innovations in tourism with examples of their application have been determined. The practical significance. We have defined the prospective types of tourism industry for Mykolayiv region such as expedition tourism (ethnographic, archaeological, ornithological, ecological, etc.), agrotourism, village green tourism; technogenic tourism; psychological tourism; esoteric tourism, extreme tourism. The most popular types of tourism are extreme and adventure tours, because of the tourists’ requires to get the maximum emotions from the tourism product. Digu tourism, speleological tourism, roofing, stalk tourism, post-palm, surviolism, mountain biking, skysurfing, base-jump, bungee jump and rope jumping. have better opportunities for development in Mykolayiv region.
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Siebel, Heddi Vaughan. "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2001), and: Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance (2002), and: 90 o South: With Scott to the Antarctic (1933), and: South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition (1919), and: Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (2001) (review)." Moving Image 3, no. 1 (2003): 174–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mov.2003.0014.
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Gargano, Virginie. "Les facteurs d’aide : Pour une meilleure compréhension des éléments-clés de l’intervention en contexte de nature et d’aventure." Groupwork 29, no. 1 (June 21, 2020): 87–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1921/gpwk.v29i1.1434.
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Les programmes d’intervention en contexte de nature et d’aventure (INA) font l’objet d’études depuis plus d’une cinquantaine d’années. Malgré la reconnaissance des effets qui leur sont attribués, peu de travaux portent sur les processus s’opérant dans ces interventions. L’objectif de cet article est d’identifier ces processus et de mieux comprendre leur influence sur l’expérience de groupe. Pour ce faire, le modèle des facteurs d’aide (FA) a été retenu. Des entrevues semi-dirigées ont été réalisées auprès de 23 sujets âgés de 17 à 21 ans ayant participé à une expédition de 18 jours. Les éléments-clés de l’INA sont les suivants : la multitude de défis, la déstabilisation, la relation entre les enseignants et les participants et le milieu naturel. Ensuite, leur relation avec les FA est mise en relief. Il est question de : l’altruisme, les comportements d’imitation, la cohésion, la connaissance de soi, le partage d’information, l’universalité et les techniques de socialisation. Les apprentissages interpersonnels, la catharsis, l’espoir, les facteurs existentiels et la récapitulation corrective de la famille sont absents. Ces résultats mettent en lumière l’interaction entre les éléments-clés de l’INA et les FA, et la pertinence de s’y intéresser en travail social de groupe.A number of studies have addressed outdoor and adventure programs over the past fifty years. Despite empirical evidence that demonstrates the personal benefits of these programs, research investigating the key features responsible for these effects is scarce. The purpose of this article is to identify them and understand their influence. In order to achieve this goal, the data were examined from the perspective of helping factors (HFs). Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 23 subjects aged between 17 and 21 who had participated in an 18 day expedition. The results show that participation in the program promoted key features: multiple challenges, the experience of destabilization, the relationship between the facilitators and group members and finally, the experience of being in wilderness. Then, relationships between key features and HFs are highlighted. Many of them are found: altruism, imitative behavior, cohesiveness, self-understanding, imparting information, development of socializing techniques, and universality. Interpersonal learning, catharsis, hope, existential factors, and corrective recapitulation of the primary family group are absent. These results give a better understanding of how key features interact with HFs in nature and adventure settings and its relevance in social work with groups.
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Goncharov, Alexander E., and Irina V. Orel. "Thames meets the Enisei: Captain Joseph Wiggins’s expedition to the Kara Sea and Enisei, 1876–1877." Polar Record 55, no. 6 (November 2019): 425–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247420000066.
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AbstractIn 1876, Captain Joseph Wiggins reached the mouth of the Enisei River aboard his screw schooner Thames. This was the second expedition that approached this river from the sea in almost 150 years. The voyage paved a path for British commercial shipping in the Kara Sea, which saw its greatest intensity in the concluding decade of the 19th century. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Wiggins stubbornly continued staging expeditions even after repeated failures. His devotedness to the idea of establishing a sea highway to Siberia inspired others. This circumstance makes him a key figure in polar history. Regardless of the commercial nature of his expeditions, Wiggins was not an entrepreneur. Neither was he an accomplished polar explorer. In fact, we find in him the last of the merchant adventurers, the heir to Hugh Willoughby and Richard Chancellor. This article focuses on Wiggins’s expedition of 1876–1877 to the Enisei River, which has not yet become an object of special attention in literature, and discusses the development and exploitation of the Kara Sea Route in connection with it.
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Nitzke, Solvejg. "Scaling High Places. Mountaineering Narratives as Climatological Tales." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 11, no. 1 (March 11, 2020): 99–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.1.3192.
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Christoph Ransmayr’s 2006 novel Der fliegende Berg and Thomas Glavinic’s Das größere Wunder (published in 2013) confront very different ideas of mountaineering. Glavinic’s protagonist Jonas joins a commercial expedition to summit the world’s highest mountain. These highly criticized commercial endeavors are the opposite of Ransmayr’s scenario in which two brothers, Patrick and Liam, embark on a journey to a mythical peak – the last Himalayan mountain no one has ever summited before. The commercial sporting extravaganza and the ultimate independent adventure represent two extremes of a practice aimed at producing intense physical encounters with nature. Both novels confront the possibility of such encounters with an account of the life of their protagonists within a thoroughly modern world. In aligning biography with the ascent of the respective peak, the narratives present themselves as mediations between personal and planetary scales. Climate, thus, is not only present as an obstacle to overcome, but as a narrative device negotiating increasingly precarious relationships between humans and nature. In comparison with non-fictional mountaineering accounts these narratives reveal an understanding of climate which is not exhausted in a “weather-biased understanding of the atmosphere” (Fleming/Jankovic 2). Instead they resurrect apparently discarded notions of climate as a local and bodily entity. Using Fleming/Jankovic’s concept of Klima – an understanding of climate which combines natural and cultural facts – this paper investigates the methodological and narrative aspects of scaling, acclimatization and high-altitude in order to unearth the myth underlying these climatological tales and their (possibly) productive and destructive effects on current discourses on human-nature-relationships in the Anthropocene.
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Wærp, Henning Howlid. "Sverdrup´s Arctic Adventures. Or: What makes an Expedition Report worth reading? – Otto Sverdrup: New Land. Four years in the Arctic Regions (1903)." Nordlit 12, no. 1 (February 1, 2008): 305. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.1347.
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Otto Sverdrup, born 1854, is one of the main polar explorers in Norway. However he is much less known not only than Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen, but also than Hjalmar Johansen, who was a member of Nansen´s Fram expedition 1893-96, and also lesser known than Eivind Astrup, who took part in two of Robert Peary´s expeditons across northern Greenland in 1891-92 and 1893-94. Hjalmar Johansen and Eivind Astrup published their own accounts from the expeditons: Selv-anden paa 86°14'. Optegnelser fra Den Norske polarfærd 1893-96 (1898) and Blandt Nordpolens naboer (1895). Astrup´s book was reprinted in 1990 and 2004, and Johansen´s book was reprinted in 1942, 1949 and 2003. They are both included in the Polar Library, together with books by Nansen and Amundsen (the Polar Liberary is by Kagge publishing house).Otto Sverdrup´s polar expedition report New Land (Nyt land), a two volume work from 1903, from the second Fram expedition 1898-1902 to north-west Greenland and northern Canada, is in comparison never reprinted. He is not in the Polar library. And his name is among readers of travelogues very much forgotten. Why is this, and what kind of book is New Land?
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Savitt, Ronald, and Cornelia Lüdecke. "Legacies of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, 1894–1897." Polar Record 43, no. 1 (January 2007): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247406005791.
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Frederick George Jackson, the leader of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition of 1894–1897, accomplished a great deal during his exploration of Franz Josef Land [Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa] although his achievements have never been fully acknowledged. Jackson's expedition itself has often been eclipsed by his famous meeting in 1896 with Fridtjof Nansen, absent for 3 years in the Arctic and it has been unfairly coloured by the view that Jackson was no more than an adventurer and sportsman. The research reported in this article evaluates Jackson's plan and management activities. The study developed a set of factors to evaluate his performance arising from a variety of expeditions contemporary with Jackson's. His strong personality and limited personnel managerial experience limited the full extent of what he might have achieved. Yet, Jackson developed a strong exploration model that was based on comprehensive planning, a significant concern for the health and welfare of his companions, the willingness to innovate in a number of activities including sledging, and a commitment to scientific discovery. Although the expedition did not find a route to the North Pole, Jackson confirmed that Franz Josef Land was an archipelago and he gave credence to the consumption of fresh meat as a means of preventing scurvy. One of Jackson's legacies to subsequent explorers was the use of ponies for haulage. He was unable to appreciate the weaknesses in their use and his influence on subsequent Antarctic expeditions often led to undesirable results. But, overall, Jackson was an innovator in a conservative exploration community.
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Khanal, Bishnu Prasad. "Impact of the COVID-19 in Tourism Industry in Nepal and Policy Recommendation." Journal of Tourism & Adventure 3, no. 1 (September 21, 2020): 76–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jota.v3i1.31357.
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For the first time in history, almost all the domestic and international tourism destinations have restrictions for travel worldwide because of corona virus pandemic. Corona virus disease calls the COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing problem in more than 210 countries in the world. The purpose of this study is to find the tourism impact of COVID-19 in Nepal and purpose recommendations for the preparation of evidence based policy and strategies for further development of the tourism industry in Nepal. Secondary data used in this study were obtained from the ministry of tourism in Nepal and other various web sources and primary data were collected from the online survey and collected 52 samples. They are involved in the hospitality, education & consulting, travel & tours, adventure & expedition, trekking agencies, and government officials from national tourism originations. The study highlights that the tourism contribution in Nepal’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) as a significant sector that has a linkage with other sectors. Also, the Nepalese tourism industry is dependent on international factors and the Nepal tourism industry highly relies on foreign tourists and cancellation of the mountain climbing permits for the year 2020, affects the income of foreign currency as building the capacity of stakeholders and public-private partnership initiatives to promote and work together to develop and manage in future tourism fields. well as the local economy, the loss of thousands of jobs in the tourism sector and others sectors. Overall analyses suggest that building the capacity of stakeholders and public-private partnership initiatives to promote and work together to develop and manage in future tourism fields.
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Freestone, Jennifer. "Space adventures." Teaching Children Mathematics 22, no. 4 (November 2015): 216–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/teacchilmath.22.4.0216.
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Salas, Laura Purdie. "Pitching Poetry." Children and Libraries 15, no. 4 (December 1, 2017): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/cal.15.4.40.
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Libraries are a place to walk on the wild side, to try something new. As a reader, when I walk into a library, I feel like an adventurer setting off on a grand expedition of discovery. As a writer, I love it when librarians guide young adventurers off the well-traveled highway and down the small, shady path toward poetry.Poetry gives so much to readers! It makes them feel something, and it connects readers to both the world and to each other. Its powerful, concentrated language builds better readers and writers, and, frankly, it’s just a whole lot of fun. That’s why poetry comes first, both in my heart and in my Genre Chant poem. Who can you lead down the poetry path today?
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Kennedy, Suzanne, Ann MacPhail, and Peter Justin Varley. "Expedition (auto)ethnography: an adventurer-researcher’s journey." Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning 19, no. 3 (March 20, 2018): 187–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2018.1451757.
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Sibthorp, Jim, Karen Paisley, John Gookin, and Nate Furman. "The Pedagogic Value of Student Autonomy in Adventure Education." Journal of Experiential Education 31, no. 2 (November 2008): 136–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/105382590803100203.
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Allowing students a sense of autonomy has long been considered an important pedagogical tool. This paper synthesizes the current literature on student autonomy from the education, youth development, and outdoor adventure fields and explores its value through an analysis of data from the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). The results supported the two main hypotheses: Developmental outcomes are related to participants' perceptions of autonomy, and autonomous student expeditions (ASE) provide students with authentic and meaningful opportunities to experience autonomy during adventure education programs. A secondary analysis found that injury, evacuation, and near-miss rates were no different during ASEs than when students are accompanied by instructors. Despite these findings, the use of ASEs remains controversial. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
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Bernat, Paolo. "Sfida all’ultimo parallelo: la conquista del Polo Sud cento anni dopo." ACME - Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università degli Studi di Milano, no. 03 (December 2012): 17–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/acme-2012-003-bern.
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100 years ago, Antarctica was still mostly unknown and unexplored. The first landings on the Antarctic coast took place in the early decades of the nineteenth century and were made by whalers and sealers. In the following years the first scientific expeditions began and European and US expeditions started the geographical discovery and the mapping of the Antarctic coasts. But it was only in the years 1911-1912 that two expeditions, very different but equally well prepared, arrived almost simultaneously at the South Pole. The events that happened in the Antarctic together with the different nature of the two leaders Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott determined the outcome of these expeditions and the fate of their teams. The centenary of the conquest of the South Pole (December 14, 1911) is an opportunity to remember the passion for science, the spirit of adventure and the fierce perseverance that characterized those extraordinary men and that even now form the basis of scientific research and of human progress, not only in Antarctica but in all areas of knowledge and life.
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Zontek, Robert. "Od trawelogu do King Konga. Misja badawcza jako motyw kina lat dwudziestych i trzydziestych w świetle imaginarium społecznego epoki." Prace Kulturoznawcze 23, no. 2 (November 7, 2019): 75–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0860-6668.23.2-3.6.
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From the travelogue to King Kong: Science expeditions as a cinematic motif of the 1920s and 1930s in light of the social imaginaries of the eraScience expeditions are a staple of cinematic fiction. The theme has been utilized in dozens of permutations in different media and film genres ranging from adventure flicks to family comedies and horrors. Indiana Jones, undoubtedly the best-known “field researcher” in the world, is one of popular culture’s most recognizable figures. In this article, however, I am interested in an era predating his cinematic debut by at least a half century. Its main focus is the 1920s/1930s threshold in which science expeditions began constituting themselves as a motif of cinema and the reasons why such a seemingly august, scholarly enterprise transformed into a popcultural phenomenon. My analysis will focus on two often overlooked but massively popular genres of the era: expeditionary films and exotic exploitation films, both of which, I argue, can be traced back to the ethnographic travelogue. I begin my inquiries — and end them — with Merian C. Cooper’s and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s King Kong 1993, which provides me with a framework for describing the ever-fickle relationship between documentary, fiction, truth and fabrication, which defined the cinematic representations of science expeditions from the very beginning.
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Bassi, Ernesto. "Turning South before Swinging East: Geopolitics and Geopolitical Imagination in the Southwestern Caribbean after the American Revolution." Itinerario 36, no. 3 (December 2012): 107–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115313000077.
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On July 21, 1786 a secret meeting took place in the office of the Spanish ambassador in Paris, Count of Aranda. The ambassador, aided by the Irish abbot O'Sullivan (who acted as translator), met John Brooks, a British captain who introduced himself as a loyalist veteran of the American Revolution. Brooks had come to Paris from London, all expenses covered by the Spanish government, to inform Aranda of an expedition projected in Britain to invade the northern coast of South America in the vicinity of the port of Cartagena. According to Brooks, Juan Blommart, a French veteran of the American Revolution, was the leader of the projected expedition. With official British backing—Brooks declared that the Marquis of Buckingham was sponsoring the expedition—and the participation of military adventurers John Cruden and Francisco de Miranda, the expedition was scheduled to sail before the end of the year. After receiving Aranda's report, the Spanish Ministry of the Indies sent the information across the Atlantic to New Granada's Viceroy Antonio Caballero y Góngora for him to make all the necessary preparations to face this potential threat.
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Horgen, Andre. "Educational expeditions - et norsk perspektiv." Acta Didactica Norge 9, no. 1 (June 12, 2015): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/adno.1422.
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AbstractThe topic of this article is the Norwegian concept of “friluftsliv” (outdoor life), used as a pedagogical tool to support personal growth. While supporting personal growth appears to be a central pedagogical strategy within Anglo-American and British youth expeditions and adventure programming, this does not appear to be case in the Norwegian outdoor tradition. My research question is: Do Norwegian Outdoor Education students experience a learning outcome related to personal growth, and to their abilities as leaders/mentors, during ski expeditions? I have collected data through a three-year period, after three ski expeditions with Outdoor Education students from an outdoor bachelor-programme at Telemark University College.The students have given written answers to questions regarding personal growth in which several informants’ express thoughts about experiences related to “self” and “identity”. They reflect upon experiences related to “mastering” and “performing”, to acceptance of their own strengths and weaknesses, and about developing self-confidence. They also reflect upon learning outcomes related to interpersonal relations and abilities, self-control, communication and caregiving. The informants have experienced, as leaders/mentors, that it is important to be able to, to “read” situations, to make good assessments of the situations, and to make good decisions related to the situations. As a follow up to this, the informants highlight the importance of being aware of each individual in the group, the importance of encouragement, being positive and caregiving. This study has shown that ski expeditions in “a Norwegian tradition” may have a potential when it comes to encouraging reflections related to personal growth and leadership abilities. Hopefully this study can contribute to increased awareness of the pedagogical potential, for personal growth, within the Norwegian concept of “friluftsliv”pedagogy? Key words: Educational expeditions, Adventure programming, Outdoor educa-tion and Personal growthSammendragArtikkelen handler om friluftsliv brukt pedagogisk med tanke på personlig utvikling. Bakgrunnen er en undring rundt hvorfor temaet personlig utvikling, som står så sentralt i britisk og angloamerikansk pedagogisk friluftslivs-tradisjon, ikke er viet større plass i norsk friluftslivspedagogisk tradisjon. Problemstillingen har vært: Opplever norske bachelorstudenter i friluftsliv at de lærer noe om seg selv og sine egenskaper som ledere under lange ferder i vinterfjellet? Datainnsamlingen har foregått over tre år, i etterkant av tre lange vinterferder med tjuefem 3. års studenter ved Høgskolen i Telemark. Studentene har svart skriftlig på spørsmål knyttet til personlig utvikling. Flere av dem gir uttrykk for en opplevelse av å ha gjort seg erfaringer knyttet til selvbilde/identitet som kan koples til personlige utvikling. Informantene reflekterer bl.a. over opplevelser knyttet til det å mestre og prestere, det å akseptere egne styrker og svakheter, samt det å utvikle troen på seg selv, også i lederrollen. I tillegg reflekteres det over opplevelser av læring knyttet til mellommenneskelig ferdigheter, selvkontroll og kommunikasjon, samt mellommenneskelig forhold knyttet til utøvelsen av lederskap og over omsorgsoppgaver lederskapet innebærer. Opplevelser av læring knyttet til det å ha overblikk, lese situasjoner, gjøre vurderinger og treffe nødvendig tiltak, er også gjenstand for refleksjon. I forlengelsen av dette reflekteres det over viktigheten av å ha fornemme den enkelte, det å oppmuntre, være positiv og gi omsorg. Studien har vist at lange vinterferder, i en norsk tradisjon, har et potensiale til å utløse refleksjoner knyttet til personlig utvikling og ledelse. Kanskje kan denne studien øke bevisstheten rundt de pedagogiske mulighetene som ligger i menneskers møter med andre mennesker i natur?Nøkkelord: Friluftsliv
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Gelsthorpe, D. "Marie Stopes the palaeobotanist, Manchester and her adventures in Japan." Geological Curator 8, no. 8 (December 2007): 375–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.55468/gc392.
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Marie Stopes is best known as a social reformer but before this she was a pioneering palaeobotanist. She was the first woman to be appointed to the scientific staff at Manchester University where she undertook research into coal fossils. Whilst at Manchester, she met Robert Falcon Scott where she showed him examples of Glossopteris fossils. Scott went on to collect fossils of this type on his fateful polar expedition in 1912. Scott's fossils later became a key piece of evidence for a 200 million year old super-continent. Marie undertook a research trip to Japan where she discovered the earliest recorded evidence of angiosperms. The significance of the events of her early life were fundamental in shaping her career and should not be underestimated.
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Brown, Matthew. "Adventurers, Foreign Women and Masculinity in the Colombian Wars of Independence." Feminist Review 79, no. 1 (March 2005): 36–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400198.
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This paper examines changing conceptions of honour and masculinity during the Colombian Wars of Independence in the early 19th century. It explores the position of the foreign women who accompanied British and Irish expeditions to join the war against Spanish rule, and shows how colonial, imperial and republican conceptions of masculinity were affected by the role that women played in these volunteer expeditions and in the wars in general. The paper considers women's experiences during war and peace, and examines their experiences in the light of changing conceptions of masculinity at home, in the British empire and in Hispanic America in the early nineteenth century. The social mobility of the Wars of Independence shifted the ground on which these concepts rested for all groups involved. The participation of foreign women alongside male adventurers was a further ingredient in this disorientating period.
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WALTON, DAVID. "Exploring Antarctica - a centennial perspective." Antarctic Science 17, no. 2 (June 2005): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102005002701.
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We are embarked on a decade of celebrations of the national expeditions of what is now termed the Heroic Age. Exploring the Antarctic – the great unknown continent – a hundred years ago was great adventure and, given what we now know of the primitive state of their equipment, it is surprising that more of these explorers did not die. The tragic death of Captain Scott's polar party must be taken as a key talisman for the title “Heroic Age” but we should not underestimate the courage and fortitude of all the others – British, Swedish, Norwegian, French, German, Belgian, Argentinean, Polish, Romanian, American etc – who sailed, walked and sledged into the unknown for the greater good of their nation.