Citations:whale-road

English citations of whale-road

• 1995, Carolyn Mehaffy, Bob Mehaffy, Destination Mexico: Planning a Cruise to Mexico, page 10:

  [...] the Seafarer reminds us [... of] the whale's domain ...

  Hearts do indeed leap within many of us desiring to roam along the whale road to reach "foreign people far across the sea" and to feel the waves lift our boats and gently set them down [...]

• 1999, Beowulf, translation by Seamus Heaney:

  In the end each clan on the outlying coasts / beyond the whale-road had to yield to him / and begin to pay tribute. That was one good king.

• 2005, Craig Moodie, The Sea Singer, page 24:

  He could make out "Down the whale road, down the whale road, down the whale road, we'll go a-viking."

• 2008, Gary Geddes, Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things, page 361:

  After I shook the dust of Mexico and Guatemala from my feet, I was on the road again, the whale road. My own instincts, and Huishen's repeated messages, took me back to the Queen Charlotte Islands, [...]