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World Heritage areas.
World Heritage areas -- Description and travel.
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Jacobs, Justin, 1980-
World Heritage areas.
World Heritage areas -- Description and travel.
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World
heritage
sites
[videorecording (DVD)] :
exploring
the
world
's
greatest
places
/ Justin M. Jacobs.
by
Jacobs, Justin, 1980-
The Teaching Company, 2021.
Call #:
DVD 910 J17w
Subjects
World
Heritage
areas.
World
Heritage
areas -- Description and travel.
Series
Great courses (DVD). Travel.
Great courses (DVD)
ISBN:
9781644652008
Alternate title:
Great Courses.
World
heritage
sites
[videorecording (DVD)] :
exploring
the
world
's
greatest
places
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] :
Description:
4 videodiscs (709 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 27 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm).
Notes:
Course no. 80000.
24 lectures/approx. 30 min. per lecture.
Home use only.
Closed-captioned.
Contents:
Disc 1. Paleolithic cave art of Spain and France -- The Taj Mahal of Agra -- Australia's Great barrier Reef -- The Mogao Grottoes and manuscripts -- Persepolis, the great Persian capital -- Easter Island and the Moai -- Disc 2. Canada'
s
Rocky Mountains -- Teotihuacan, largest city of Mesoamerica -- Samarkand, crossroads of Central Asia -- Ancient Egyptian Thebes -- The Forbidden City of Beijing -- Mount Fuji, the symbol of Japan -- Disc 3. Timbuktu, Islam's center by the Sahara -- The ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum -- Virunga National Park, Gorilla Sanctuary -- Angkor Wat, the great Khmer temple -- Earliest China: Yinxu and the Oracle bones -- The Inca estate of Machu Picchu -- Disc 4. Iceland'
s
Great Assembly at Thingvellir -- Afghanistan's lost Bamiyan buddhas -- The Acropolis of Athens -- Tibet'
s
Potala Palace and Jokhang Temple -- Palmyra, oasis in the Syrian Desert -- The Redwood Forests of California.
Performers:
Lecturer: Justin M. Jacobs, professor of History at American University.
Summary:
Since 1972, UNESCO has designated
World
Heritage
Sites
across the globe, marking locations of outstanding value to humanity. This course tours 24 of the foremost UNESCO
sites
, highlighting marvels of human culture, such as India'
s
Taj Mahal, Egypt'
s
Thebes, and Uzbekistan's Samarkand, plus natural wonders of our planet, such as the Great Barrier Reef, Japan'
s
Mount Fuji, and Africa'
s
Virunga National Park.
Genre:
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
Travelogues (Motion pictures).
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Teaching Company.
Holds:
10
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Dartmouth North Public Library
Adult Nonfeature DVDs
DVD 910 J17w
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