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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In 1847, the crew of a real life Royal Naval expedition (later known as Franklin's expedition) led by three captains, Sir John Franklin, Francis Crozier and James Fitzjames, is sent to find the Arctic's fabled treacherous Northwest Passage but instead discovers a monstrous polar bear-like predator, a cunning and vicious Gothic horror that stalks the ships in a desperate game of survival. However, it soon becomes clear that that's just the beginning...
64) The navigators
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The Navigators is the true story of one of the most daring ocean races ever. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin race to be the first to lay claim to the prize of Australia.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the race to the South Pole in 1911 between rival explorers: the Englishman Scott and the Norwegian Amundsen. In an effort to be the first to plant his country's flag at the South Pole, Scott and Amundsen undertook a 1,500-mile trek across the frozen wastes of Antarctica, facing danger, extreme suffering, and death.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Join the players in a pioneer life adventure game to follow events and famous people in history during the westward expansion of the United States. Discover how the Louisiana Purchase and the California Gold Rush encouraged exploration and settlement. Learn the role of individuals such as Daniel Boone, and the effect pioneer settlements had upon Native American populations. See how transportation innovations transformed the West.
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Pizarro, go up the Amazon in search of gold. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (the self-styled "Wrath of God") is consumed by visions of conquering all of South America and leads a revolt, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a death trip.
Pub. Date
[2002, c1984]
Language
English
Description
"This spectacular National Geographic video takes you on a journey spanning 4,000 years of human history, including the dramatic re-creation of the 1869 Powell Expedition." Includes special behind-the-scenes bonus "The making of the Grand Canyon", DTS Surround Sound, Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound..
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A highly imaginative exploration of one of the most intriguing epochs in human history: when the 'Old World' first encountered the 'New World.' Travel from Granada in Spain to Machu Picchu in Peru, and from Mexico to Madrid in Spain. Explores how the collision of these two sophisticated but different worlds led to the birth of an entirely new Latino culture.
70) Almost heroes
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It was a time of heroes. Well, almost. They were hearty men in those days. Men who, like Bartholomew Hunt and Leslie Edwards, made sure that when adventure called, it got a wrong number. Where explorers Lewis and Clark go, Hunt and Edwards follow, hoping to overtake the famed expeditioners and be the more fiery trailblazers.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1800's, Henry M. Stanley, a reporter for James Gordon Bennett, Jr., of the New York Herald, emerges from the snowbound Comanche country bearing an exclusive interview with a rampaging Indian chief. Back in New York, Bennett impresses Stanley with the importance of finding long-missing British doctor David Livingstone in Africa, the biggest news story in the world. Stanley accepts the assignment and, accompanied by Indian scout Jeff Slocum,...
75) Cortes & Pizarro
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Learn about Spanish conquistadors Cortes and Pizarro, and how their encounters with the empires of the Aztec and the Inca led to the destruction of these civilizations.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Following Columbus's initial voyages of exploration, Spain established a pattern of conquest and settlement in the New World, fueled by a desire for wealth and colonies. In the name of Spain, many adventurers set out to explore and conquer the remainder of the unclaimed and uncharted Americas. Join our young hosts as they discover the world of the conquistadors who, in their exploration for a shorter path to the East, found personal wealth and an...
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting effects these civilizations have had on Western civilization....
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