EXPLORATION

Jacques Cousteau - Pacific Explorations
$54.98
when they foccus on the biolocical side of the material you have hours of highly informinative entertainment worthy of comparison with any on dvd.
unfortunatly they have a socialist slant they insisst onexploring.
this slows the pace & has no businnes being included.
watch Blue Planet & compare. you will not buy the dvd.

Explorations
$11.98
"Explorations" is another fine example of Evans' classic trio of Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian. These guys make this music swing so hard. Bill Evans redefined the role of the trio and made history with these outstanding musicians. This is essential jazz listening. If you haven't heard it, then pick it up today, you'll be glad you did. Highly recommended.

I consider every Bill Evans album essential listening.

Just The Facts: The Age of Discovery
$14.98
This fascinating program examines the important figures of this period, their motivations for exploring new lands, and their tragedies and successes. These pioneers include Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal, who sponsored many voyages to Africa; Bartolomeu Dias, who discovered the southern cape of Africa; Christopher Columbus, who made four voyages to the Americas; Pedro Cabral, who claimed Brazil for Portugal; John Cabot, who set out to duplicate the journey of Columbus; Amerigo Vespucci, from whom America derives its name; Vasco da Gama, who opened a trade route to India; and Ferdinand Magellan, whose three-year journey took his ship and crew around the world, although he died without seeing the end of the journey. Learn and relieve these difficult and fascinating voyages with history s most brave and famous explorers.

Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration
$18.95
This book's strength is its encapsulation of a wide swath of human migration into concise segments and sufficient historical reference. The author largely avoids the in-the-weeds details of each major exploration and colonial settlement. Reviewers criticize the author's abbreviated and unsourced assertions. There are some courageous dismissals of widely held conventional wisdoms. But there are also some clearly Spanish biases shining through: See the curt rejection of the late 16th century British maritime prowess as that of a barbarian nation, particularly in its defeat of the Spanish armada; See the avoidance of detailing Spanish atrocities in the exploration of South America; See no mention of the formal closure of Spain's colonial era in the late 19th Century with the Spanish-American war.

Most irritating is the author's tone in the final segment of the book, where he broadly swipes at late-19th/early-20th century explorations as mere "glory-seeking." Some of those expeditions, while fruitless and ego-driven, set the foundations for subsequent engineering, scientific, transport and commercial developments that propelled human civilization to greater advancements and quality of life.