circumnavigator

However, they faced no backlash a year earlier, when Abby's older brother Zac completed the same journey at 17, briefly holding the record for being the world's youngest solo circumnavigator.

Laura Dekker, 14-Year-Old Dutch Sailer, Gets OK For Solo World Trip 2010

He had become the 175th solo circumnavigator, and he had achieved his dream of becoming the first Indian national to achieve this feat.

True Spirit Jessica Watson 2010

Her parents were sharply criticized for allowing her to undertake the trip – a complete turnaround from the praise the family had basked in a year earlier when Abby's older brother Zac successfully captured the world record for youngest solo circumnavigator at age 17.

Laura Dekker, Teen Sailor, Sets Sail 2010

In fact America is named after circumnavigator Amerigo Vespucci.

Think Progress » Limbaugh Distorts Numbers To Downplay Global Warming Science 2006

Oh most happy pedagogue, to whom it has befallen to have chastised a circumnavigator, and, like another Chiron, trained another

Westward Ho! 2007

A second epitaph commemorates the mother and father of this short-lived brood: "James and Grace Cook were the parents of the celebrated circumnavigator Captain James Cook who was born at Marton Oct. 27th, 1728," the inscription says, "and killed at Owhyhee December 14th, 1779." next »

Excerpt: Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz 2002

Pigafetta, the circumnavigator, gives the King of Tidor eighteen daughters to eight sons.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

V.S. Naipaul is a literary circumnavigator, only ever really at home in himself, in his inimitable voice.

Nobel Prize for Literature 2001 - Press Release 2001

That illustrious circumnavigator had, he said, left nothing to those who might follow in his track to describe, or fill up.

The Expedition to Botany Bay 2003

Francis Drake became the first English circumnavigator when he crossed the Pacific to the East Indies.

2. European Exploration, 1600-1800 2001