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Quest for immortality / Reader's Digest ; DD Television.

Contributor(s): Language: English, German, French Summary language: English Publisher: [London] : Reader's Digest Association, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930 QUE 2010
Production credits:
  • Researcher, Jane Dickens ; production manager, Lucy Meek ; drama reconstructions, Dragonshead Productions ; composer, Will Goodchild ; editor, Fran Ross ; script, Lynette Singer ; series producer, Harriet Smith.
Narrator: Trevor Nichols.Summary: "Explore Angkor Wat, undiscovered until 1860, a temple and city where the rulers of the all-conquering Khmer kingdom claimed the whole of Indo-China. See the Pyramids of Giza, the symbols of the ancient Egyptians' yearning for permanence and have endured for over 4,000 years. Be amazed at the ancient Greek city of Olympia, which became the spiritual centre of a whole society and how athletes flocked to the new Olympic Games to compete, worship and demonstrate now just their athleticism, but their fearsome battle skills too."--Container.
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Media Resources Taylor's Library-TU 930 QUE 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Complimentary from: Reader's Diget Association, 14 August 2012 1 Available GENLS,GENLS,02,GR 1000535050

"History's greatest civilisations revealed!"--Cover.

Researcher, Jane Dickens ; production manager, Lucy Meek ; drama reconstructions, Dragonshead Productions ; composer, Will Goodchild ; editor, Fran Ross ; script, Lynette Singer ; series producer, Harriet Smith.

Narrator: Trevor Nichols.

"Explore Angkor Wat, undiscovered until 1860, a temple and city where the rulers of the all-conquering Khmer kingdom claimed the whole of Indo-China. See the Pyramids of Giza, the symbols of the ancient Egyptians' yearning for permanence and have endured for over 4,000 years. Be amazed at the ancient Greek city of Olympia, which became the spiritual centre of a whole society and how athletes flocked to the new Olympic Games to compete, worship and demonstrate now just their athleticism, but their fearsome battle skills too."--Container.

DVD; PAL.

English, German or French; English subtitles.