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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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Alaska, Spirit of the Wild

Alaska, Spirit of the Wild


by George Casey

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 1997
  • DVD

This gorgeous film, originally produced for IMAX, showcases the spectacular landscapes, glaciers, bears, whales and wilderness of Alaska with humor, drama and some dazzling camera work. (ALA216, $14.99)

Australia Revealed


by Discovery Channel

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2007
  • DVD

Head Down Under and explore the wonders of Australia in this Discovery Atlas presentation. (AUS231, $14.98)

BBC Atlas of the Natural World: Africa and Europe


by BBC

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2007
  • DVD

This six-disc boxed set brings together four acclaimed BBC documentary series: Wild Africa, Congo, The First Eden (Mediterranean) and Europe: A Natural History. (NAT129, $59.98)

BBC Atlas of the Natural World: Western Hemisphere and Antarctica


by BBC

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2006
  • DVD
  • 5 PAGES

This five-disc boxed set of BBC documentaries includes Land of the Eagle (1990), Spirits of the Jaguar (1996), Wild South America (2000) and Life in the Freezer (1993). (NAT128, $99.98)

The Best of Youth


by Marco Tullio Giordana

  • 2006
  • DVD

Giordana's intimate film explores the lives of two Roman brothers and the people they encounter from the 1940s to the turbulent 1960s and the present. It's a 2-part, six hour epic and engrossing in its detail. (ITA58, $29.99)

The Blue Planet, Seas of Life


by BBC

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2007
  • DVD

Narrated by David Attenborough, this four-DVD boxed set features all eight extraordinary episodes of the BBC/Discovery documentary. (OCE88, $59.99)

Burden of Dreams


by Les Blank

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2005
  • DVD

Documentary filmmaker Les Blank captures the unfolding of the making of Fitzcarraldo, made all the more perilous by Herzog's determination to shoot the most daunting scenes without models or special effects, including a sequence requiring hundreds of natives to pull a full-sized, 320-ton steamship over a small mountain. (AMZ121, $39.95)

Canyonlands, A Southwest Desert Odyssey

Canyonlands, A Southwest Desert Odyssey


by David Fortney

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2004
  • DVD

This breathtaking overview of the national parks of the Southwest features David Fortney's captivating mix of aerial, still and time lapse photography, and a score by Patrick O'Hearn. (SWU221, $14.99)

China, The Panda Adventure

China, The Panda Adventure


by Robert M. Young

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2005
  • DVD

A dramatization of the true-life travels and travails of Ruth Harkness and her 1936 journey. The film, originally presented in IMAX theatres, is a visually stunning introduction to the giant panda, its history, conservation and habitats. (CHN302, $9.98)

Chungking Express


by Kar Wong

  • 2004
  • DVD

In Wong Kar-wai's intoxicating film two intertwined tales take place inside a high-rise shopping center in downtown Hong Kong: a policeman falls in love with a snack bar waitress while a house detective gets involved with a female drug dealer. (CHN573, $9.99)

The Flame Trees Of Thika


by A & E

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1981
  • DVD

Haley Mills stars in this excellent television mini-series based on Elspeth Huxley's much-loved memoir of life on a farm in the highlands of Kenya in 1913. (EAF205, $39.95)

Hero

Hero


by Zhang Yimou

  • 2005
  • DVD

Jet Li stars in this visually stunning martial arts masterpiece by the director of Raise the Red Lantern. Set in ancient feudal China, this simple tale is rendered in breathtaking color. (CHN328, $19.99)

In the Mood for Love


by Kar Wong

  • 2002
  • DVD

Wong Kar-wai's delicately mannered, gorgeous tale unfolds in an apartment building in Hong Kong. (CHN574, $39.95)

An Inconvenient Truth


by Davis Guggenheim

  • SCIENCE
  • DVD

Al Gore explains the contributing factors to the growing climate crisis, describes changes to the environment caused by global warming, and discusses the shift in environmental policy that is needed to avert disaster. (SCI240, $29.99)

The Last Time Around Cape Horn, The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir

The Last Time Around Cape Horn, The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir


by William F. Stark | Peter Stark

  • HISTORY
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

The unstinting memoir of the then 22-year-old rookie aboard the famous windjammer Pamir. (PAT69, $13.00)

Lawrence of Arabia


by David Lean

  • 2005
  • DVD

David Lean's masterpiece, much of it filmed around Wadi Rum. (MDE166, $14.94)

Lewis & Clark, The Journey of the Corps of Discovery


by Ken Burns

  • HISTORY
  • 2004
  • DVD

This Ken Burns series is both celebration and analysis of the personalities, accomplishments, hardships and impact of the famous expedition. (PNW227, $24.99)

The Life of Birds

The Life of Birds


by David Attenborough

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 1998
  • HARD COVER
  • 320 PAGES

A companion book to the PBS series. (GEN77, $35.00)

Life of Mammals, The Complete Set

Life of Mammals, The Complete Set


by David Attenborough | BBC

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • DVD

The complete series hosted by David Attenborough. (NAT115, $79.98)

Masters of the Arctic Ice


by National Geographic Society

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2007
  • DVD

This spectacular one-hour documentary, filmed using the National Geographic Crittercam, features the ringed seals and polar bears of Prudhoe Bay and narwhals around Baffin Island. (ARC211, $19.98)

Mutiny on the Bounty


by Charles Laughton

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • DVD

Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone were each nominated for an academy awards for thier performances in this classic 1935 adaptation of Charles Nordhorf's sea saga. (PAC199, $19.97)

Mystery of the Maya


by Barrie Howells | Robert Rochin Naya

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • DVD

Filmed on location in eye-poppoing IMAX, this film showcases the archeaology and culture of the ancient Maya, featuring footage of Palenque, Tikal, Tulum, Chichen Itza, Copan and Uxmal. (MYA53, $14.99)

National Treasure


by Jon Turteltaub

  • HISTORY
  • 2010
  • DVD

This family-friendly adventure, set primarily in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., blends American history and conspiracy theory to exhilarating effect. Nicolas Cage plays Benjamin Gates, an historian and amateur cryptologist, who must steal the Declaration of Independence in order to protect it and a legendary treasure from falling into the hands of a ruthless enemy. (USE527, $14.99)

Never Cry Wolf


by Carroll Ballard

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • DVD

The movie version of Mowat's entertaining account of wolf research and government folly set on the barren lands of northern Manitoba. (CND315, $19.99)

Nova - The Viking Deception


by Nova

  • ARCHAEOLOGY
  • 2005
  • DVD

This Nova doocumentary examines the controvery surrounding the purpoted Viking map of the coastline fo North America. (VIK29, $19.95)

The Passenger

The Passenger


by Michelangelo Antonioni

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2007
  • DVD

Antonioni's lush melodrama, starring Jack Nicholson, captures the landscape, romance and political intrigue of North Africa. (AFR251, $19.94)

Raise The Red Lantern


by Yimou Zhang

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2007
  • DVD

Starring the young Gong Li, this stunning photographed portrait of China at the beginning of the 20th century follows the fate of a 19-year-old, forced to leave college and become the fourth wife of a powerful, feudal nobleman. (CHN575, $19.98)

Relentless Enemies

Relentless Enemies


by Beverly Joubert

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2007
  • DVD

Beautifully filmed at Duba Plains in HD, this National Geographic documentary captures the drama, power and beauty of the lions and water buffaloes of the Okavango. 90 minutes. (BOT32, $19.98)

Sholay


by Ramash Sippy

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2009
  • DVD

The Bollywood blockbuster, featuring the godfather of Indian cinema, Amitabh Bachan. (IDA570, $9.98)

Shower


by Zhang Yang

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2000
  • DVD

In this film by Zhang, a succesful Shenzhen businessman reluctantly returns to his childhood home in Beijing when he hears his father has died. When he discovers that his father is in fact alive, he is forced to reexamine his relationships with his father and brother and the decisions that have kept him away from home for so long. (CHN326, $29.95)

South Pacific, Collector's Edition Widescreen


by Joshua Logan

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • DVD

The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical set on an island in the South Seas during WWII. (PAC207, $26.98)

Surviving Everest

Surviving Everest


by

  • 2003
  • DVD
  • OUT OF PRINT

A celebration of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay by National Geographic. The documentary details the many triumphs and disasters that have occurred on Mt. Everest, including original 1953 footage and a 1984 tribute. (HML58, $24.95)

Timeless: A National Parks Odyssey


by David Fortney

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2002
  • DVD

Fortney's mix of aerial, still, and time lapse photography is put to marvelous use in this captivating journey across 18 national parks. (USA149, $14.99)

Walkabout


by Nicolas Roeg

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1971
  • DVD

In this haunting classic film by Nicholas Roeg an Aborigine boy teaches a lost young girl and her brother how to survive in the Australian outback. (AUS247, $39.95)

Water


by Deepa Mehta

  • 2007
  • DVD

Third in a trilogy, following Fire and Earth, Deepa Mehta's affecting film is set in Varanasi (though filmed in Sri Lanka). (IDA572, $19.98)

Wild Africa, BBC Atlas of the Natural World


by BBC

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2007
  • DVD

Part of BBC's Atlas of the Natural World, this six-part series presents a vivid portrait of the land, people and wildlife of the mountains, savannah, deserts, coasts, jungles, and lakes and rivers of Africa. (AFR197, $24.98)

Wild China

Wild China


by BBC Video

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2008
  • DVD

The stunning six-part BBC documentary series takes in the full range of China's diverse habitats and wildlife from Yunnan to the Tibetan plateau, Mongolian Steppes, western desert and coast. (CHN529, $29.98)

With Byrd at the South Pole, the Story of Little America

With Byrd at the South Pole, the Story of Little America


by Joseph Rucker | Willard Van der Veer

  • EXPLORATION
  • 1930
  • DVD

The Academy-Award winning tale of Byrd's expedition to Antarctica. (ANT165, $29.95)

Wolves, A Legend Returns to Yellowstone


by National Geographic

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2007
  • DVD

Four years in the making, this amazing National Geographic documentary by Bob Landis invites you to run with the pack for a wolf's-eye view of Yellowstone. (BST136, $24.95)

Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure

Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure


by George Butler

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2002
  • DVD
  • OUT OF PRINT

A stunning film of Shackleton's 1914 trans-Antarctic expedition, originally presented in IMAX theaters in glorious 70 mm. With aerial photography, documentary footage and the modern expedition by three great mountaineers in the footsteps of Shackleton across the mountains and glaciers of South Georgia. (ANT203, $19.99)

 

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