All 8 Uses
odyssey
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Three Cups of Tea
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- Mortenson, who'd worked as an emergency room trauma nurse for the freedom the irregular hours gave him to pursue his climbing career, gave Fine injections of Decadron to ease the edema and the four already exhausted climbers began a forty-eight-hour odyssey of dragging and lowering him down craggy rock faces.
Chpt 1odyssey = long eventful journey
- Jerene Mortenson had been anxiously following her son's odyssey from her new home in River Falls, Wisconsin.
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- The outskirts of Skardu, awash in pharing and starga, apricot and walnut orchards, announced that the odyssey along the Indus was over.
Chpt 7the odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC -- attributed to Homer)
- And for the first time in years, he had someone with whom he could discuss the odyssey he'd been on since he first set foot in Korphe.
Chpt 12
- On the roof, he sipped paiyu cha deep into the night with his new friend the nurmadhar, hearing the story of Aslam's odyssey.
Chpt 16odyssey = long eventful journey
- After surviving their odyssey, the last residents of Brolmo village arrived, exhausted and emaciated, in Skardu, where the military directed them to their new home.
Chpt 17
- On his third odyssey through the echoing halls of the crumbling Ministry of Finance, he met Afghanistan's deputy minister of finance, who threw up his hands when Mortenson asked him why Uzra and her teachers weren't receiving their pay.
Chpt 21
- In Schaller's own book, Stones of Silence, he confesses that his treks through the Karakoram, which he called "the most rugged range on earth," were, for him, spiritual odysseys as well as scientific expeditions.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(odyssey as in: her odyssey from Mexico to Texas) long eventful journey
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(The Odyssey as in: Homer's Odyssey) epic poem (attributed to Homer) of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, Odyssey is used as a name of many things because of the importance of the poem in Western culture.