History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration

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Call Number: BOCD 910.9 Li Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"Course no. 3962."
Compact discs.
disc 1, lecture 1. The earliest explorers -- Disc 1, lecture 2. The scientific voyage of Pytheas the Greek -- Disc 2, lecture 3. St. Brendan--the travels of an Irish monk -- Disc 2, lecture 4. Xuanzang's journey to the West -- Disc 3, lecture 5. Leif Eriksson the Lucky -- Disc 3, lecture 6. Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville -- Disc 4, lecture 7. Ibn Battuta--never the same route twice -- Disc 4, lecture 8. Portugal's great leap forward -- Disc 5, lecture 9. The enigmatic Christopher Columbus -- Disc 5, lecture 10. Magellan and the advent of globalization -- Disc 6, lecture 11. The ruthless ambition of the Conquistadors -- Disc 6, lecture 12. Henry Hudson : death on the ice -- disc 7, lecture 13. The Jesuits on a global mission -- Disc 7, lecture 14. Captain Cook maps the world -- Disc 8, lecture 15. Alexander von Humboldt--explorer genius -- Disc 8, lecture 16. Jefferson dispatches Lewis and Clark -- Disc 9, lecture 17. Sir John Franklin's epic disaster -- Disc 9, lecture 18. Ida Pfeiffer--Victorian extreme traveler -- Disc 10, lecture 19. Japan discovers the West -- Disc 10, lecture 20. Dr. Livingstone and Mary Kingsley in Africa -- Disc 11, lecture 21. Arctic feats and fates -- Disc 11, lecture 22. Antarctic rivalries -- Disc 12, lecture 23. A deep-sea dive into the Mariana Trench -- Disc 12, lecture 24. The race to outer space.
Lecturer: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius.
Presents 24 30-minute lectures discussing notable expeditions of exploration from premodern times to today, including the explorers who led them and these missions' varied and complex motivations.

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