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Outdoor Adventure

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Outdoor Adventure at Herefordshire, Ludlow, and North Shropshire College

Language: English Studies in English
University website: www.hlcollege.ac.uk
Higher National Diploma (HND)

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Adventure
An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports. The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture, or other major life undertakings.
Adventure
* * * and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign worlds.
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book X, line 439
Adventure
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.
Mircea Eliade, in Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)
Adventure
Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was about to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look Ready for Anything.
A. A. Milne, in Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
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