circumnavigator

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In its Nobel citation, the Swedish Academy called him “a literary circumnavigator, only ever really at home in himself.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 12, 2018

In its Nobel citation, the Swedish Academy called him “a literary circumnavigator, only ever really at home in himself.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2018

He chartered a plane to locate the yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester as Sir Francis sailed around Cape Horn in his attempt to be the first solo circumnavigator of the globe.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2010

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.

From Newsweek • Jul. 27, 2010

The truth is that it would be as easy to name the discoverer of gunpowder or steam-power as to find the first circumnavigator of the African continent.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir