History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration
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"Course no. 3962."
DVD.
Disc 1: The earliest explorers -- The scientific voyage of Pytheas the Greek -- St. Brendan--the travels of an Irish monk -- Xuanzang's journey to the West -- Leif Eriksson the Lucky -- Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville -- Disc 2: Ibn Battuta--never the same route twice -- Portugal's great leap forward -- The enigmatic Christopher Columbus -- Magellan and the advent of globalization -- The ruthless ambition of the Conquistadors -- Henry Hudson : death on the ice -- disc 3: The Jesuits on a global mission -- Captain Cook maps the world -- Alexander von Humboldt--explorer genius -- Jefferson dispatches Lewis and Clark -- Sir John Franklin's epic disaster -- Ida Pfeiffer--Victorian extreme traveler -- disc 4: Japan discovers the West -- Dr. Livingstone and Mary Kingsley in Africa -- Arctic feats and fates -- Antarctic rivalries -- A deep-sea dive into the Mariana Trench -- 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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SERIES
Great courses. History. Modern history.
PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 4 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 159 p. : ill. ; 19 cm)
Language: English
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
162997109X
9781629971094
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Liulevicius, Vejas G.,
Teaching Company.
SUBJECTS
Discoveries in geography.
Voyages and travels.
Explorers -- History.