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History's greatest voyages of exploration Cover Image DVD DVD

History's greatest voyages of exploration

Liulevicius, Vejas G. (author,, speaker.). Liulevicius, Vejas G. (Added Author). Teaching Company. (Added Author). Recorded Books, LLC. (Added Author).

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.

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  • ISBN: 9781501910524
  • ISBN: 1501910523
  • Physical Description: videodisc
    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]

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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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