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https://www.academia.edu/49518712/There_and_back_again_the_significance_of_far_travel_and_…

…legend, who navigated great wakas or canoes across vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean, rather than the clinker-hulled longships sailing the stormy waters of the North Atlantic. But both journeys were long, difficult and dangerous. Both brought the far-travellers to small islands …

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Life

…II, ode xxix, line 41 (c. 23 BC and 13 BC) Tomorrow we will be back on the vast ocean. Horace The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings Life is a hopeless rear guard action against an overwhelming foe; stil…