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As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she craved--to be an explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician--had gone extinct. From what she could tell of the world from small-town Ontario, the likes of Marco Polo and Magellan had mapped the whole earth; there was nothing left to be discovered. Looking beyond this planet, she decided to become a scientist and go to Mars. In between studying at Oxford and MIT, Harris set off by bicycle...
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[2015]
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1 online resource (1 video file (59 min. 18 sec.)) : sound, color.
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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...
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[2011]
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1 online resource (1 video file (28 min., 44 sec.)) : sound, color.
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This program looks at tourism in Kenya, which is the country's third largest source of income. It examines what most tourists don't see, such as the real villages as opposed to the ones built for tourists to see and the safaris and game parks that provide a more natural experience.
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[2014]
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1 online resource (1 video file (29 min., 33 sec.)) : sound, color.
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This program examines how tourism has been vital to the Egyptian economy for decades. It considers how the revolution of 2011 and the political and social upheavals that followed have adversely affected tourism.
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[2016]
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1 online resource (1 video file (59 min., 41 sec.)) : sound, color.
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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...
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[2015]
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1 online resource (1 video file (59 min. 31 sec.)) : sound, color.
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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...
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[2015]
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1 online resource (1 video file (43 min., 24 sec.)) : sd., col.
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The Indian Subcontinent is romantic, remote and mysterious. From the plains of Pakistan to the foothills of the Himalaya, from Northern India and Rajasthan to Tamil Nadu in the south, this vast melting pot of civilizations, religions, cultures and landscapes has seen some of the greatest artistic golden ages on earth. This series examines the Indus Valley civilizations, Tamil Nadu-land of the temples-and the Mughal Empire, three very different dynasties...
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[2012], c1997
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1 streaming video file (51 min.)) : sd., col.
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Follow Ian Wright's journey down the length of Chile, from the driest desert in the world to the southern-most point before the Antarctic Ocean, in this episode of Globe Trekker. He encounters llama farmers, visits the island made famous in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, sees the largest telescope in the world, and meets the indigenous Mapuche Indians and a group of 8th generation German ex-pats, two groups who work to retain their own language and...
9) Canada
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[2014], c2011
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1 streaming video file (52 min.)) : sd., col.
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Bruce travels to the far north of Canada to live with the Caribou people and witness their annual spring hunt. The Gwitchin tribe has hunted migrating caribou in the Arctic wilderness for thousands of years, but this tradition is now under threat from oil exploration. Bruce then heads south to the tar sands of Alberta, home to the second largest oil reserves in the world, to discover how native people cope when the oil industry moves into their territory....
10) Land of Fortune
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[2014], c2012
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1 streaming video file (52 min.) : sd., col.
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Francesco da Mosto takes a look at Italy as the land of adventure and ambition. Beginning in Venice with actor Ciaran Hinds, he considers how the town struck Shakespeare as the perfect setting for The Merchant of Venice . In Rome, Francesco discovers how Shakespeare used the city as a smokescreen to address the burning political issues of his day while avoiding trouble with Elizabethan censors. Francesco meets Shakespearean actor Mark Rylance, and...
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[2014], c2011
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1 streaming video file (52 min.)) : sd., col.
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In this episode of Shane Untamed, Shane O heads to Kodiak Island to get a taste of all things big in Alaska. Salmon fishing is big on the Emerald Isle; Kodiak bears are the biggest brown bears in North America; and of course, you can't get much bigger than whales. Shane O sets out to experience all three, with some surprises along the way.
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[2015]
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1 online resource (1 video file (50 min., 11 sec.)) : sound, color.
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In this second episode, Professor Richard Fortey travels to the rainforests of Madagascar-an ancient island that has spawned some of the most extraordinary groups of plants and animals anywhere in the world. From beautiful Indri lemurs, toxic frogs, and the cat-like giant mongoose called the fossa, to evolutionary oddities like the giraffe-necked weevil and the otherworldly aye-aye, Prof. Fortey uncovers the secrets of the evolutionary niche-examining...
Publication Date
[2015]
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1 online resource (1 video file (51 min., 49 sec.)) : sound, color.
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In this first episode, Professor Richard Fortey is on Hawaii to investigate how life colonizes a newly born island. The most remote island group in the world, by some estimates only one new species successfully colonized Hawaii every 35,000 years- yet the Hawaiian Islands teem with a great diversity of life. In search of the evolutionary secrets of how one species becomes many, Prof. Fortey encounters beautiful honeycreeper birds whose evolution rivals...
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[2015]
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1 online resource (569 pages)
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Extrait: "Les lecteurs qui ont bien voulu m'accompagner, l'an dernier, dans mon excursion à Vienne, se rappellent peut-être la route que nous primes pour nous rendre de Paris dans la capitale de l'Autriche. Après avoir traversé le Mont-Genis, nous touchâmes barre à Venise et à Trieste, puis nous arrivâmes par le Semmering — ce Mont-Genis autrichien — sur les bords du Danube qui n'est malheureusement bleu que dans le titre de la valse de...
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[2013]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr. 36 min., 34 sec.)) : sd., col.
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Insider's Guide to Puerto Rico is a travel documentary featuring the island's best destinations. Native islander Karenlie Riddering leads viewers beyond the usual tourist attractions typically visited by more than 1.4 million tourists who enter Puerto Rico each year on cruise ships alone. Insider's Guide to Puerto Rico captures some of the most amazing and best-kept secrets of the island into a film that allows visitors and locals to discover and...
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Works issued by the Hakluyt Society volume 2nd ser., no. 63
Publication Date
2010
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1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps.
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Publication Date
c2009
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Traveling more than 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of China, the authors of this narrative explore the minority peoples who dwell there, talking to farmers in their fields, monks in their monasteries, fishermen on their skiffs, and herders on the steppe. Closely observing daily life in these remote regions, they document the many lifestyles and adventures of the Chinese natives they visit an old Catholic fisherman at a church...
Publication Date
[2014]
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1 online resource (1 video file (52 min. 7 sec.)) : sound, color.
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In this documentary series, Sue Perkins uncovers a region undergoing unprecedented change. As well as tackling hard-hitting social and environmental issues, Sue explores the lighter side of life on South East Asia's largest river, flowing 3,000 miles from the high peaks of the Himalayas through the Tibetan plateau, the canyons of Chinese Yunnan, and Vietnam's vast Mekong Delta. In Part 3, she discovers how Laos is opening to tourism and foreign investment-for...
Publication Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (52 min. 4 sec.)) : sound, color.
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In this documentary series, Sue Perkins uncovers a region undergoing unprecedented change. As well as tackling hard-hitting social and environmental issues, Sue explores the lighter side of life on South East Asia's largest river, flowing 3,000 miles from the high peaks of the Himalayas through the Tibetan plateau, the canyons of Chinese Yunnan, and Vietnam's vast Mekong Delta. In Part 4, on the final leg of her journey, she investigates how China's...
Publication Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (52 min. 5 sec.)) : sound, color.
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In this documentary series, Sue Perkins uncovers a region undergoing unprecedented change. As well as tackling hard-hitting social and environmental issues, Sue explores the lighter side of life on South East Asia's largest river, flowing 3,000 miles from the high peaks of the Himalayas through the Tibetan plateau, the canyons of Chinese Yunnan, and Vietnam's vast Mekong Delta. In Part 2, she uncovers animal welfare and conservation efforts in Cambodia,...




