Bole again sailed westward on 23 August 1958, this time amid mounting chaos from revolt in Indonesia and growing trouble in southeast Asia.

It was night-time, and the sky was clear; the moon, a silver crescent, sailed high amid the absence of stars... And, sliding across the desolate sky of this abandoned earth, I saw more of the Plattnerite Ships.

Be amazed by the sheer scale of Victoria Falls, Dive into an aquatic paradise in coastal Mozambique, Set sail through clear waters on a dhow, Camp amid coconut .

"Several swans were sailing on the lake amid dark clutches of wildfowl," Mr. McGahern writes in one passage.

Loftiest trucks were made for wildest winds, and this brain-truck of mine now sails amid the cloud-scud.

Curtis sailed through the air, connecting with a bookshelf before slumping to the floor amid an avalanche of literature.

Conner yesterday sailed against the newest of Bill Koch's contenders, Kanza, amid mounting ridicule of Bill Koch's impetuous decisions about who steers his boats.

There should also be help from breakers, which many vessels on their way to Russian ports never had at all, not to speak of merchant ships, which sailed there amid the ice for weeks without this help.

Finally freed of the pack ice on July 28, the expedition sailed across Melville Bay, amid persistent ice bergs.

No one saw it as it sailed amid the full-sized harbor traffic, on several occasions escaping being crushed like an egg beneath the bows of huge barges and steamships, or rammed by the ferryboats in their monotonous sleepwalks from one shore to another.