| Description |
4 videodiscs (approximately 12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). |
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digital video rda |
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video file DVD video rda |
| Series |
The great courses. Better living. Travel |
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Great courses (DVD). Better living.
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| Note |
Title from disc label. |
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"National Geographic." |
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"Course no. 9788." |
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Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. |
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Contains 24 lectures; each lecture is approximately 30 minutes. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Niagara Falls : America's oldest state park -- The Pennysylvania Wilds: wilderness reborn -- New York's Adirondacks: "forever wild" -- Exploring New Hampshire's White Mountains -- The Yankee Coast: Plymouth to Montauk -- New Jersey Pineland legends and landscapes -- Disc 2. The Tidewater South: America's birthplace -- Georgia and Carolina Islands: lost in time -- Southern Appalachian peaks and valleys -- The Florida Keys: tropical paradise parks -- West Texas: where the west is still wild -- Adventures in the Ozarks and Ouachitas -- Disc 3. State parks along the mighty Mississippi -- Presidential parks in the land of Lincoln -- The Great Lakes: back from the brink -- The Black Hills: nature and native heritage -- Parks of the Colorado Front Range -- Southwest Red Rock and Desert Canyon parks -- Disc 4. California's Badlands: Anza-Borrego -- Big Blue: the beauty of Lake Tahoe -- California's coastal redwood parks -- Washington's Orca Islands: the San Juans -- Alaska's state parks: the last frontier -- Hawaii's primeval Napali Coast. |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Joe Yogerst, journalist and travel writer. |
| Summary |
"Join a best-selling travel writer and globe-trotting journalist to discover 18 million acres of adventure in America's state parks."--Container. |
| Subject |
Parks -- United States -- Videodiscs.
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United States -- Description and travel -- Videodiscs.
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United States. |
| Genre |
Lectures.
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Documentary films.
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Travelogues (Motion pictures)
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Educational films.
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Informational works.
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Nonfiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Yogerst, Joseph R., speaker.
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National Geographic Society (U.S.), sponsor.
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Teaching Company, production company.
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| ISBN |
9781629977737 |
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162997773X |
| Music No. |
ID9788A-01 The Teaching Company (container) |
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PD9788A The Teaching Company (discs) |
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PB9788A The Teaching Company (guidebook) |
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