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Travel wild volume Season 1
Pub. Date
[2013], c2009
Language
English
Description
Australia's Southeast Queensland attracts visitors from every corner of the globe. With one of the world's most consistent climates, it boasts 300 days of sunshine a year. This sunshine has sculpted the landscape with lush forests and golden beaches. In this episode, Lin Sutherland hikes through verdant World Heritage-listed rain forests, visits a renowned eco-resort, meets the wonderful migrating humpback whales, tries a few extreme sports, and explores...
2) Oceans 8
Series
Language
English
Description
The annual expanding and shrinking of the Antarctic ice sheet, which holds about 70% of the earth's fresh water, affects the entire planet's weather and oceans. Today, the continent is increasingly impacted by human activities: global warming is causing the ice to melt at a greater pace, nations are fighting over its natural resources, and the area has become a major tourist destination. Filmmaker, author and adventurer Jon Bowermaster provides a...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ideal for both the seasoned traveler and the armchair dreamer, this Rough Guide features 1,000 must-do experiences from around the world, from trekking to the source of the Ganges to platypus-watching in Australia. You'll find plenty of things to put on your bucket list!
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
If you like a thrill, it's easy to fall for New Zealand. Adventure tourism is one of the country's most lucrative industries, and bungee jumping was practically invented there. But not everyone walks away from an extreme sports experience in New Zealand. Over the past eight years at least 50 people have died in accidents that may have been preventable if stricter litigation and compensation guidelines had been in place. Tour operators scoff at what...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2002
Language
English
Description
This Globe Trekker episode follows several explorers through India, hitting the crowded cities of Calcutta, Delhi, Chennai, and Mumbai, home to the world's biggest film industry, historic sites like the Taj Mahal, several Hindu temples, and the mountain ranges on a Himalayan trek and a stop at some British colonial hill top retreats. They make time to attend several Hindu festivals and to investigate the cuisine by tasting local dishes like a thali...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2002
Language
English
Description
This Globe Trekker video follows Estelle Bingham's journey through Kenya. She starts out cycling through Hell's Gate National Park before heading north to meet a Mau Mau freedom fighter. She continues into the tribal lands of the Northern Frontier, hangs out with some Samburu tribesmen, tracks lions in Laikipia, and participates in a young Pokot boy's initiation ceremony into manhood. From there she takes a beautiful flight over the Rift Valley to...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2000
Language
English
Description
In this Globe Trekker video, Megan McCormick begins her Egyptian adventure in Cairo at the Bazaar of Khan al-Khalili, a huge market which has been open since the Middle Ages, and goes on to visit the mosque at Ibn Tulun, the spot legend holds Noah's ark came to rest and Moses confronted pharaoh's magicians, the Great Pyramids at Giza, and the monastery at St Antony's. En route to Siwa, a remote town dominated by crumbling remains of the 13th century...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2006
Language
English
Description
In this Globe Trekker video, Justine Shapiro and Sami Sabiti return to South Africa to see how the rainbow nation has changed since apartheid ended. They start in Cape Town, exploring the beaches and gay district before heading to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. While Justine experiences the Hindu festival of Kavadi in Durban, home to South Africa's Indian and Pakistani population, Sami explores the diamond mines of central South...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Language
English
Description
In this Globe Trekker video, traveler Ian Wright begins his African adventure on the historic island of Zanzibar, a former center of the Arab-dominated slave trade that lasted until 1922, and traces the path of Dr. Livingstone, an explorer and antislavery campaigner, from a crocodile and hippo filled river safari on the world's biggest game reserve, Selous, to the scenic Kigoma on the western edge of Tanzania and the Gome Stream Chimpanzee colony...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This edition of Globe Trekker follows Andrew Daddo through the distinct environments of three African countries. He begins at Victoria Falls with the tranquil Zambezi River in Zimbabwe and crosses over to Botswana to visit Chobe National Park, a sanctuary for African big game where he encounters elephant, buffalo, antelope, zebra and giraffes in the acacia trees, and wallowing hippos and crocodiles. He travels the Okavango Delta, a web of clear channels...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Language
English
Description
This Globe Trekker video follows Megan McCormick through West Africa, where Europeans uncovered gold in Ghana and ivory in the Cote d'Ivoire 500 years ago. Her trip includes a visit to a coffin shop in Ghana's capital, Accra, a traditional Ga funeral, a talking drum lesson from famous drummer Mustapha Addy, a brush with warthogs and elephants at the Mole Game Reserve, and a trip to Kumasi, birthplace of Kente cloth where the textile is still woven...
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