circumnavigator

“We haven’t had as many finishers as we thought,” Don McIntyre, a founder of the race and a circumnavigator, said.

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

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

From my reading of the aforementioned Mitchell essay, I pointed out to a fellow circumnavigator that the eddies at the bend of the East River between the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges is where corpses that go into the water in the winter frequently surface in the spring.

We’ve come a long way from the era of the fictitious circumnavigator Phileas Fogg.