Adventurous Journey Research Articles

De Vendelhelm uit Hallum: wat doet deze helm in Friesland?

The Vendel helmet from Hallum: What is this helmet doing in Friesland? The helmet with copper-alloy animal heads found at Hallum (province of Friesland), which was presented in two previous volumes of Paleo-aktueel, is here interpreted in its historical context. An attempt is made to explain what a Scandinavian-type Vendel helmet is doing at a terp site in present-day Friesland. Three options are discussed: (1) local manufacture in Friesland; (2) war booty from a military expedition in the North Sea area; and (3) a gift from a Scandinavian king to a Frisian warrior who had undertaken an adventurous journey to central Denmark or Sweden. Option 1 is seen as unlikely, because Scandinavian-style helmets from England are executed in a style that is local to the region, as is Scandinavian-style jewellery from Friesland. Option 2 is seen as more probable, although no other Vendel helmet is recorded for the North Sea area, where military expeditions from Friesland are expected to have taken place. Option 3 is seen as the most probable: a Frisian warrior – like Beowulf – undertook an adventurous journey to central Denmark or Sweden, was rewarded with a Vendel helmet, and brought this helmet back to his homeland. Although the further history of the helmet cannot be reconstructed, an additional fastening hole in the lower part of each of the animal heads is proof that these mounts were removed at some point, probably to be attached to a new helmet. In this way, the mounts referred to the deeds of an adventurous Frisian warrior predecessor, whose fame now supported a young warrior in his quest to prove himself.

Learning attribution in the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award (DoEIA)

ABSTRACTThe Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award (as it is named in Australia) is an extremely widespread and popular youth development program. Participants (14–25 year olds) navigate the Bronze, Silver and Gold Award levels by completing: (1) Service, (2) Skills, (3) Physical Recreation, and (4) Adventurous Journey (recognising that at Gold level there is also a Residential Project requirement). Despite the international nature of the Award, with more than 1 million participants, research into its effects has been limited. This paper describes for the first time the ways in which the attribution of learning effects works with respect to the DoEIA. Using a mixed-methods approach, the research team sought results to show how participants themselves attribute their learnings to the Award, and what this could mean for youth development.

The Powell Expedition: New Discoveries about John Wesley Powell’s 1869 River Journey. By Don Lago

Ever since John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Colorado River voyage into “the Great Unknown,” as he himself called the river, his adventurous journey has inspired writers and historians. The expedition is prominent in such standard works as Richard A. Bartlett’s Great Surveys of the American West, William Culp Darrah’s Powell of the Colorado, and Wallace Stegner’s Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, as well as in new research that continues to be published. Powell’s ambition was to run the Green and Colorado Rivers to explore their geography and navigability. After launching from Green River, Wyoming, Powell with a crew of nine men and four boats disappeared into the canyons of the Colorado Plateau. Some three months later Powell, five crew members, and three boats emerged at the western end of the Grand Canyon, making the first river passage of the great canyons of the Colorado. Don Lago’s The Powell Expedition: New Discoveries about John Wesley Powell’s 1869 River Journey does not give us another account of Powell’s river trip, however. Lago instead pursues particular problems and controversies in its history. He is particularly interested in the backgrounds and motivations of the crew members, who, in comparison to Powell, have received little attention from historians. He also examines the fate of the men who left the expedition and investigates James White’s claim to have run the river before Powell did. In addition to the three sections of the book probing these major topics, other sections consider the sources of some of the geographical names and boat names that the expedition used, stories about John Wesley Powell, and firsthand accounts of the end of the expedition. Each section and most of the chapters can stand alone as separate studies.

The Relationship Between Religion and Politics in Contemporary Turkish Novel: The Case of ‘Kar’ Novel

The Relationship Between Religion and Politics in Contemporary Turkish Novel: The Case of ‘Kar’ Novel

Platinum in Chemistry: An Adventure from Phosphorescent Materials to Catalytic C-H Functionalization.

Platinum is a precious and versatile metal and has played important roles in various fields of chemistry ranging from functional materials to anticancer drugs and catalysis. This account highlights an adventurous journey of platinum from promoting phosphorescence to catalyzing a C-H functionalization reaction, or you may consider it our research adventure from phosphorescent materials to catalysis. Interestingly, this journey is driven by a series of "bad" reactions, and of course more importantly by our curiosity about the "bad" reactions. This review will introduce to you a few classes of phosphorescent materials based on tridentate and tetradentate cycloplatinated complexes and related material design strategies, a classical example of thermodynamic and kinetic control of reactions and related platinum-mediated competing sp2 /sp3 C-H activation reactions, an unprecedented regiospecific acylation of cycloplatinated complexes, and a unique platinum-catalyzed oxidant- and additive-free C-H acylation reaction.

James Bruce's ‘Fourth’ Manuscript: Solving the Mystery of the Provenance of the Roman Enoch Manuscript (Vat. et. 71)

For four centuries the book of Enoch was lost to Western Christianity and Judaism. That was until 1773, when Scottish explorer James Bruce brought back from Ethiopia ‘three’ copies of it to France and England. Yet, by the end of the eighteenth century there was another copy of the book of Enoch in Rome, in the library of Cardinal Leonardo Antonelli. This was an Ethiopic manuscript that, around 1825, would be acquired by Angelo Mai for the Vatican Library, where it is currently preserved (Vat. et. 71). The provenance of the manuscript has remained until now unknown. Through the recovery of eighteenth-century neglected letters and documents, this article uncovers a forgotten chapter in James Bruce's biography, his adventurous journey to Rome immediately after his return from Ethiopia, his meeting with Pope Clement XIV, and the ‘fourth’ Enoch manuscript he donated to the Antonelli Library. Personal and political reasons led Bruce to suppress the memory of his precious gift.

Merchant’s Road Toward the Utopia in Heliodorus’Aethiopica

AbstractHeliodorus’Aethiopicanarrates the adventurous journey of a couple through Egypt to the kingdom of Meroe in Ethiopia where they get married. To increase the plausibility of this story Heliodorus uses his knowledge of Rome’s trade activities in the East and he even introduces some characters involved in trade ventures in those regions (e.g. Nausicles) at crucial moments of its development. On the other hand, Heliodorus’ references to luxurious products of Eastern and African origin, as well as to exotic animals or tribes, are recurring elements (orleitmotifs) that are consciously interspersed throughout the novel. Those references not only serve to unify a carefully planned plot and guide the reader to an intended conclusion, but also to map the idealised Ethiopia and its neighboring subjected regions (inhabited by some fantastic tribes), where the protagonists will eventually live.

Thinking Globally: Mandeville, Memory, and Mappaemundi

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: THE TRAVELS OF Sir John Mandeville, the fourteenth-century "first-person" account of a fictional English knight's adventurous journey to Jerusalem and across the world, is difficult to teach.1 Popular with medieval European audiences, the book troubles today's students with its confusing descriptions of global geography, its treatment of non-Christian, non-European peoples, and its constant conflation of fact and fable. But, as those who have taught it can attest, it can serve as a valuable tool for challenging students' preconceptions of an isolated European Middle Ages. It introduces them to an unreliable narrator and to tensions between the doctrines of the institutional Roman church and individual faith. The author's global perspective shows students a world of diverse religions, ethnicities, races, diets, customs, and sexualities. And the Travels does this while being relatively short and entertaining, pulling the reader through the map via its engaging narrative of landscaped vignettes.

‘Can't catch me’!

Inspire children with the traditional story of The Gingerbread Man to make an annotated map, which plots his adventurous journey. You can also link to a baking session using a fail-safe recipe.

Ambrogio Contarini i jego podróż na Wschód. Okoliczności nawiązania kontaktów dyplomatycznych przez Wenecję i Polskę z Persją w drugiej połowie XV w.

Artykuł poświęcony jest mało znanemu w historiografii wątkowi dyplomatycznych kontaktów pomiędzy Europą chrześcijańską a Uzun Hassanem (1423-1478), władcą Persji. Stolicą jego państwa było, leżące obecnie w północno-zachodnim Iranie miasto Tabriz. Uzun Hassan wspierał militarnie przeciwników Turcji osmańskiej i dążył do nawiązania kontaktów dyplomatycznych z państwami chrześcijańskimi. Autor krótko przedstawił dzieje tych poselstw, których celem była zazwyczaj Wenecja i Rzym. W 1472 r. jedno z nich zawitało również do stolicy Królestwa Polskiego Krakowa. Poza krótkimi wzmiankami we współczesnych kronikach i dokumentach dyplomatycznych niewiele wiemy o szczegółach tych pierwszych politycznych kontaktów z Persją. Zasadnicza część artykułu odnosi się natomiast do niezwykle dobrze udokumentowanej źródłowo podróży na dwór Uzun Hassana w Tabriz weneckiego posła Ambrogio Contariniego. W dyplomatyczną podróż wyprawił się on z Wenecji w lutym 1474 r. Ponieważ Turcy w owym czasie blokowali przeprawę z Cypru do Azji Mniejszej wenecki poseł zdecydował się na podróż lądem poprzez Niemcy, Królestwo Polskie i Ruś. Niezwykle cenne są jego opisy mało znanych regionów leżących nad Dnieprem, w tym samego Kijowa. Szczegółowo opisał swoją pełną przygód podróż kierując się do Kaffy nad Morzem Czarnym. Stamtąd omijając posiadłości tureckie i góry Kaukazu, uniknąwszy wielu niebezpieczeństw Contarini przedostał się do Persji.

Otherworld by Jason Segel

Reviewed by: Otherworld by Jason Segel Melanie Kirkwood Segel, Jason Otherworld; by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller. Delacorte, 2017 [368p] Library ed. ISBN 978-1-101-93933-8 $21.99 Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-101-93932-1 $18.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-1-101-93934-5 $10.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 9-12 Otherworld 2.0 is the ultimate MMPG that allows players to live their wildest fantasies; it's also being clandestinely explored as a way for patients with physical limitations to let their minds roam free. Eighteen-year-old Simon smells something wrong, though, when his best friend Kat, recovering from an accident, pleads for help just as she's sent into the VR world. Determined to save Kat and to get to the bottom of who's behind this irresponsible beta test, Simon takes off on a dangerous and adventurous journey into Otherworld, where he meets up with gamer friends and fights VR monsters. Chapters oscillating between realities are mind-boggling as readers work to make sense of time lapses in events across worlds. Segel and Miller take the time to create a thrilling plot and also elegantly build an entire alternate universe, complete with governing systems and rising internal tensions. The ending is disappointingly anticlimactic, presumably in preparation for the forthcoming sequel, but readers will nonetheless enjoy the thrill and suspense of the ride. MK Copyright © 2017 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

An adventurous journey: Social workers guiding customer service workers on the welfare frontline

INTRODUCTION: This paper explores a reform to worker relationships at the frontline of the Australian income support and government service provider (Centrelink). Reform involved social workers providing guidance to customer service workers and working closely with them in order to improve interactions with people seeking assistance.METHODS: A case study traced reform in two Centrelink offices over one year, and included semi-structured interviews and observations with social workers and customer service workers. A thematic analysis highlighted the nature of changes to worker relationships over time, and how new relationships supported new organizational practices.FINDINGS: Customer service workers initially reported both anxiety and excitement, expressing admiration of social workers’ skills and knowledge. Over time, they emphasised the inspiration and interpersonal support social workers provided them, how this helped them deal with difficult situations and was missed when not available. Social workers’ initial scepticism around demands on their time and challenges to their professionalism gave way (in part) to a sense of influencing and guiding workers towards more humanising interactions, although some concerns and organizational tensions remained.CONCLUSION: Guidance to other workers is a form of leadership which fits well with social work’s relational, supportive potential. Tensions in the welfare context mean that providing guidance is both rewarding and challenging, taking social workers on an adventurous journey involving adversity and (self) discovery.

Discovering Protein Receptors for Signaling Nucleotides.

Discovering Protein Receptors for Signaling Nucleotides.

The Song of the Sirens

In Homer’s account of the adventurous journey of Odysseus, the song of the sirens was so appealing and tempting that it lured sailors to their deaths. Warned by the goddess Kirke, Odysseus overcame the trap by plugging his crew’s ears with wax. An archaeo-acoustical research expedition undertaken by members of Humboldt University Berlin made sound propagation experiments at the supposedly historical scene at the Galli Islands where it’s said that the sirens originally sung. At the site we broadcasted both synthetic signals and natural voices via loudspeakers in the direction Odysseus most probably should have approached the Siren’s island. Subjective listening as well as objective acoustic analysis of the recorded signals revealed evidence for a combination of site-specific acoustic effects, which may explain the nature and origin of the song of the sirens in Homer. The local arrangement of the three islands deforms the acoustic signals by amplification and by changes in timbre. Two female singers from the Berlin State Opera were asked to sing differently pitched musical intervals to be tested in the Li Galli environment. The experiment evinced that the first overtones (octave, fifth, and fourths) would be merged by the echo of the rocks; yet when singing pure thirds and less consonant intervals, which yield higher orders in the overtone series, the voices appear recognisable as being two. As a result, and particularly because Homer stresses the number of exactly two sirens several times, the evidence of our research supports the musicological theory for a rather early existence of enharmonic tunings and most prominently a two-part polyphonic singing of Greek songs. Given that the rocky formation of the Galli Islands most likely didn’t change during the geological tick of just 2,700 years, we conclude that there has been a real acoustic basis for the myth reported by Homer and that a “song of the Sirens”, most probably based on natural voices, was transformed by the particular acoustic conditions of the landscape in such a way that signals were amplified and sent out in one concrete direction. Based on these results, we continue to discuss further leading acoustic theories that offer new insights into the mythology and which were essential to motivate our expedition in the first place. After all, the question remains open what kind of beings the first emitters of the song might have been.

Unknown travels and dubious pursuits of William Clark

Jo Ann Trogdon. The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2015. 469pp. ISBN: 978-0-8262-2049-3. 23 illustrations.Academics frequently fall into the trap of writing new books on subjects that have previously been explored by a large volume of earlier scholars. If there have been two hundred prior biographies of Mark Twain, surely there is a need for a new title in this string of repetitions. So, this study by Jo Ann Trogdon is refreshing because it goes beyond the repeated details of the Lewis and Clark famous exposition of America from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, and instead asks, who was William Clark before this point and why Meriwether Lewis chose him for this adventurous journey when he probably had the funding to attract almost any of the experienced explorers from the period. And instead of running through Clark's life, a feat that has already been attempted, Trogdon chose a little-explored voyage that holds intriguing mysteries. The events described are from 1798, over five years before the famous exploration, when William Clark took a flatboat from Louisville, Kentucky, loaded with tobacco and furs to sell downriver in Spanish New Orleans. This was not the last stop on his trip, and he made it all the way up north to Boston on his way back, so this was a grueling journey that taught him the navigational, managerial and other skills he used in the mile-wise similar later expedition. As Trogdon looks closely at Clark's journal from this trip and researches every minute detail hoping for clues to enrich her descriptions, she discovers that Clark's trading trip was far from angelic. Clark was smuggle a secret Spanish payoff to a corrupt American official, illegally transporting Spanish dollars from New Orleans to the U.S. border, and committing acts of espionage. In the Preface, Trogdon explains that while today or in the kingdom of Britain, this espionage might have been punishable by death or life-long imprisonment, in 1798, America had just come out of the American Revolution, and Clark's plot to potentially help Kentucky separate from the Union was just a normal part of post-colonial business and politics. If America could split from Britain, what was wrong with helping scheming Spaniards hoping to start a new insurrection?The book includes original illustrations taken out of Clark's journal, as well as transcripts of most of the passages that inspired this book from the same source. Every part of the journey is explained with specific historic references and everything from what Clark ate to where he pulled ashore is presented, so that somebody who wanted to imitate this journey would not need a second source book. …

The writer as the people's therapist: Der Nister's last decade, 1939–49

ABSTRACTWorld War II and the Holocaust caused profound changes in the style and themes of Der Nister's writing. He reevaluated his symbolist legacy and emerged as one of the most powerful and tragic voices in Soviet Yiddish literature. His transformation from a respected but marginal literary figure into a self-styled national leader became complete with his adventurous journey to the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan in the Soviet Far East, which he envisioned as a site of new Jewish revival. His illusions were crushed by his arrest in 1949.

Romantic Exploration and Atlantic Slavery: Mungo Park’s Coffle

IN JUNE 1797, AT A VILLAGE NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER GAMBIA ON Atlantic coast of West Africa, Scottish explorer Mungo Park bid farewell to a group of people with whom he had just made a five-hundred-mile journey across western Africa. His book, Travels in Interior Districts of Africa (1799), describes their emotional parting: I could not part, for last time, with my unfortunate fellow-travelers, doomed, as I knew most of them to be, to a life of captivity and slavery in a foreign land, without great emotion. During a wearisome peregrination of more than five hundred British miles, exposed to burning rays of a tropical sun, these poor slaves, amidst their own infinitely greater sufferings, would commiserate mine; and frequently, of their own accord, bring water to quench my thirst, and at night collect branches and leaves to prepare me a bed in Wilderness. We parted with reciprocal expressions of regret and benediction. My good wishes and prayers were all I could bestow upon them; and it afforded me some consolation to be told, that they were sensible I had no more to give. (1) This group of 34 enslaved Africans, part of a caravan or coffle of 73 travelers, had been marched from interior to coast to be sold to European slave traders and shipped across Atlantic. Park traveled with coffle by permission of its leader, African slave trader Karfa Taura. The two had made a deal: on arrival at coast, Park would pay Karfa the value of one prime slave. This benevolent Negro, as Park calls him, helped explorer at lowest point of his adventurous journey (Travels, 234). When he arrived at slave trader's village, he was wandering, hungry, sick, and alone, after achieving his goal of seeing which direction Niger River flowed (to east). Karfa fed, clothed, and sheltered bedraggled Park and let him join his traveling party to begin journey home. But explorer's homeward journey was his fellow travelers' journey away from their homes into New World slavery. This essay will call attention to Park's dependence on infrastructure and personnel put in place by slave trade: both Atlantic slave trade, still legal and active during his travels, and internal African slave trade that supplied European ships with human cargo. I will consider Park's book (most often read as an exploration narrative) as part of archive of enslavement. (2) Recent approaches to epistemological and ethical challenges involved in recovering history of slavery highlight generative tension between recovery as an imperative ... and impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very and organization occlude certain historical subjects. (3) To what extent--if at all--does Park's account of his travels through western Africa give us access to history of enslavement? What are its limitations of assembly and organization, when considered from this perspective? Park's book is distinctive in its attention to connection between internal African slave trade--what historian Walter Johnson has termed Passage--and Atlantic slave trade, notorious Middle Passage. The Passage, as Johnson points out, too often disappears from academic historians' account of slave trade, an omission that effectively reproduces perspective of a European slave trader, focused on ocean voyage, or an abolitionist, intent on banning traffic in humans. The First Passage was integral to experience of those who eventually made Middle Passage--to their understanding of what it was that was happening, their emotional condition going into journey, and their ability to survive it. (4) Park's account of enslaved Africans with whom he traveled in Karfa Taura's coffle may yield some insight into these issues. Before and during trip, he conversed with his fellow travelers, learning how they became enslaved and gauging their response to their captivity. …

Nordic Slow Adventure: Explorations in Time and Nature

The potentially paradoxical concept of “slow adventure” is offered here as having a particularly North European potential and a peculiarly Nordic orientation towards outdoor tourism activity. An overview of the relationship between the slow movements and the frenetically paced, technologically wired lived experience of hypermodernity is considered in the light of the rise of the adventure tourism “industry”. We contrast the slow movement principles with mainstream, risk managed and rationalised “fast” adventure tourism products, which focus predominantly on thrill and rush. The concept of slow adventure, as distinct from slow tourism or slow travel per se is then further developed to include time, passage, comfort and nature, aligned with Scandinavian concepts of friluftsliv, as determining elements in what have become highly regarded tourist experiences. We conclude that there cannot be an essentialist separation of “slow” and “fast” adventure (or travel, or tourism, or food … ) per se. Rather, that these qualitative aspects of self-supported adventurous journeys illustrate significant, and hitherto largely ignored aspects in the analysis of adventure tourism, and point toward opportunities for well-trained outdoor professionals who can make the most of the Nordic great outdoors for small numbers of clients, enabling inclusive, environmentally responsible, high-value, place-specific experiences, all year round.

Promoting Youth Development Worldwide: The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award

The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award is a youth achievement Award program that aims to engage young people in purposeful activities focused on gaining knowledge, broadening horizons and accumulating a diversity of experiences. The program promotes positive youth development through an experienced based learning approach and is known to play a vital role in providing opportunities for young people to develop essential life skills, complementing their formal education. Comprised of three levels (Bronze, Silver and Gold) and four sections (Service, Skills, Physical Recreation and Adventurous Journey) the Award is designed to provide a balanced programme of personal development. The Award operates worldwide in over 140 countries and territories, through the International Award Association. This article will discuss The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award program and its non-formal educational framework. Participants reported that it has enabled them to grow in confidence and in their ability to contribute positively to their communities.

Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment

Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment