Simon Reeve
Series
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (59 min., 41 sec.)) : sound, color.
Description
Simon Reeve travels to Greece, one of the most beautiful, troubled, and extreme countries in Europe. Travelling from the Islands of the Aegean to the rugged and mountainous north, Simon gets behind the picture postcard image to learn more about Greece and the Greeks and why the country has faced a seemingly endless economic crisis. Along the way he encounters an extraordinary cast of characters from rebel monks and gun-toting priests, to desperate...
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (59 min. 18 sec.)) : sound, color.
Description
In the second program, Simon Reeve goes to Barbados, one of the wealthiest islands in the Caribbean. Learn how high-end tourism has impacted life in Barbados. In Venezuela - a poor nation, despite having some of the largest gas and oil reserves in the world - Simon looks at the mismanagement of natural resources and meets the inventive people running businesses from a 'shanti town in the sky', an abandoned skyscraper that is home to more than 3,000...
Series
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (52 min., 7 sec.)) : sound, color.
Description
Starting at the spectacular Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, Simon travels down the east coast to the great and rapidly changing cities of Belfast and Dublin. He ends his journey in the stunning Wicklow Mountains.
Series
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (59 min. 2 sec.)) : sound, color.
Description
Simon Reeve begins his journey on the island of Hispaniola, then explores both the light and dark sides of the Dominican Republic. He joins the Police Anti-Narcotics Division in the war against international drug cartels in Santo Domingo then crosses the border to Haiti and visits the notorious tented camps of Cite de Soleil. He also discovers a vibrant, colorful and thriving side to life in Haiti born out of the country's unique history.
Series
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (49 min., 30 sec.)) : sound, color.
Description
Simon begins his journey in the south of Ireland, paramotoring with an Irish explorer. On the west coast, he does spot of surfing before climbing Croagh Patrick in honor of Ireland's patron saint. This leg of his journey ends in Malin Head, Ireland's most northerly point.
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (59 min. 31 sec.)) : sound, color.
Description
Simon Reeve begins this final episode the remote Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, a country facing monumental change with the construction of a new transoceanic waterway set to rival the Panama Canal. Reeve then travels to the Honduran island of Roatán, a haven for marine life and tourists - as well as for people fleeing unimaginable violence on mainland Honduras. He ends his Caribbean journey on the iconic island of Jamaica, discovering a country confronting...
