ISBN: 9781644652008

Description:

• 4 videodiscs (approximately 709 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 27 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
• digital
• optical
• video file
• DVD video
• polychrome

Target Audience Note: CHVR: NR

Other Title: Exploring the world's greatest places

Notes:

• Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
• Features lecturer Justin M. Jacobs, professor of History at American University.
• DVD.
• In English.

Contents:

• DISC 1: 1. Paleolithic cave art of Spain and France
• 2. The Taj Mahal of Agra
• 3. Australia's Great barrier Reef
• 4. The Mogao Grottoes and manuscripts
• 5. Persepolis, the great persian Capital
• 6. Easter Island and the Moai
• DISC 2: 7. Canada's Rocky Mountains
• 8. Teotihuacan, largest city of Mesoamerica
• 9. Samarkand, crossroads of Central Asia
• 10. Ancient Egyptian Thebes
• 11. The Forbidden City of Beijing
• 12. Mount Fuji, the symbol of Japan
• DISC 3: 13. Timbuktu, Islam's center by the Sahara
• 14. The ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum
• 15. Virunga National park, Gorilla Sanctuary
• 16. Angkor Wat, the great Khmer temple
• 17. Earliest China: Yinxu and the Oracle bones
• 18. The Inca estate of Machu Picchu
• DISC 4: 19. Iceland's Great Assembly at Thingvellir
• 20. Afghanistan's lost Bamiyan Buddhas
• 21. The Acropolis of Athens
• 22. Tibet's Potala Palace and Jokhang Temple
• 23. Palmyra, oasis in the Syrian Desert
• 24. The Redwood Forests of California.

Publisher or Distributor Number:

• ID80000A-01
• 14858767

Control Number: 3208175

UPC: 978164465200

Series:

• Great Courses : Travel
• Great Courses : Travel.

Subjects:

• World Heritage areas -- Description and travel.
• World Heritage areas.

Genre:

• Documentary films.
• Educational films.
• Informational works.
• Lectures.
• Travelogues (Motion pictures)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

• Jacobs, Justin, 1980-
• Teaching Company.