DVD
History's greatest voyages of exploration / Professor 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501910524
- ISBN: 1501910523
- Physical Description: 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 PDF.
- Edition: [PDF workbook version].
- Publisher: [Chantilly, Virginia] : Teaching Company, [2015]
- Distributor: Prince Frederick, MD : [Distributed by] Recorded Books, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Course no. 3962. DVD; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 153-159). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Lecturer: Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. |
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| Subject: | Discoveries in geography. Voyages and travels. Explorers > History. Discoveries in geography. Explorers. Voyages and travels. |
| Genre: | History. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Homer Public Library | GC-DVD 910.9 LIU (Text) | 000161670 | Great Courses -- Video | Available | - |
Summary:
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.