1.   Joshua Slocum, the first man to circumnavigate the globe alone, saw a phantom during his epic voyage.

2.   Every evening across the immense expanse of the tropical western Pacific, millions of white-shelled, dinner-plate-size mollusks begin an epic voyage.

3.   Some medical historians have suggested that he picked up a tropical disease during his epic voyage aboard the Beagle.

4.   The epic voyage, nonetheless, caught the imagination of the world, and made Heyerdahl an instant popular hero.

5.   The question is, will we choose to use our power tools to navigate our epic TV voyage through The Rest of TV?

6.   This was a time of epic voyages of Pacific settlement.

7.   After all, he was from the same bustling port of adventurers and merchants as Marco Polo -- who had also left Venice on his epic voyage to China.

8.   Hundreds of years before Europeans came to the Pacific, they made many epic voyages across the ocean.