The Shape of the World. Volume 2

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Release date: Aug. 4, 2009.
Originally broadcast on PBS in 1991.
Bonus: The chartbusters.
Narrator, Patrick Stewart.
Episode 3. Staking a claim: "The New World held the promise of unimaginable riches--literally, rivers of gold--for European nations bold enough to explore it. Spain, France, and Britain occupied new territory, subjugated indigenous people, and marked their conquests with maps."
Episode 4. Empire!: "In the 19th century, William Lambton began the Great Trigonometric Survey--an ambitious attempt to map every square foot of the Indian subcontinent. With George Everest succeeding Lambton, the project took more than 60 years and led British surveyors to measure the roof of the world."
DVD; 4:3 full screen; Dolby digital; stereo.

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