One small ship cruise line goes under. Most people would have seen their ships as fodder for the scrap yard. Dan Blanchard of American Safari Cruises saw them as the means to start a new company. With the complete overhaul of two ships formerly of Glacier Bay, InnerSea Discoverieswas born, a small-ship cruise line with a taste for adventure and exploration of wild places. The first time I saw the Wilderness Discoverer she sat high and dry in a shipyard in Seattle. Poin...
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As sunset falls on the inscrutable stylized faces, one thinks again how appropariately, in the event of man's passing, they would symbolize the end of this age. For the faces are formless, nameless, they represent no living style. They are therefore all men and no man, and they stare indifferently upon the rolling waste which has seen man come and will see him fade once more into the primal elements from which he came. No tears are marked upon the faces, and when at last the waves cl...
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