The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, August 22, 1999

The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, June 6, 1999
The story of the last 1,000 years can be told as a series
of great adventures: Marco Polo to China, Columbus to
the New World, Lewis and Clark to the Pacific, Darwin
to the Galapagos. Adventure is as old as Homer, but
plunging into the unknown in quest of knowledge is the
special legacy of this millennium -- one that began with
Leif Ericsson and ends with a robot on Mars. Where
must the explorer go now to find terra incognita?
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