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Date released

Jul 1964

Series name

Carrousel Britanico

Issue no

7

NoS ID

324619

Story no

4 / 5

COI synopsis: Sotheby’s is a London firm which has an international reputation for selling the very best and rarest of antiques. ‘Carrousel Britanico’ sees some of the goods to be auctioned, which...

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Condor and the Bull, The (1990 Video)

Director

Peter Getzels; Harriet Gordon

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Villagers from remote hamlets high in the Andes join together with people from the roadside village of Ocongate to celebrate the Peruvian independence day. Festivities require that a wild condor be captured...

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Dances with Llamas (1997 Video)

Producer

John Bulmer

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Charts the preparations for Tinku, the raucous annual festival in Tamacuri, an ancient village high in the Bolivian Andes and home to the Macha people. Tinku is a chaotic, deadly affair banned by the village...

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Mayday: Air Crash Investigations (Special Edition) (2008)

aka: Air Crash Disasters

Subject

Aviation; Engineering

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £19.99

A compelling analysis of some of the most tragic air-disasters in history. The 8 discs include: The Tenerife Air Disaster (1977); Pan Am Flight 103 (1988); TWA Flight 800 (1996); Last Hour of Flight 11...

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Touching the Void (2004)

Subject

Psychology; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £19.99

The documentary reconstructing the story of British mountain climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates as they climb to the summit of the hitherto unclimbed Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. On the descent,...

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Glacial Balance (2014)

Director

Ethan Steinman

Subject

Environmental science; Geology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (95 minutes), £17.40

The snowmelt of the Andes mountain accounts for roughly 80% of the water supply for Andean cities, including drinking water, irrigation and hydro-electric power. New evidence suggests that most of the Andean...

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Amazon (2008)

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £24.99

In this series, anthropologist and adventurer Bruce Parry journeys the length and breadth of the largest river in the world - the Amazon. Tracing the giant river from its origins high in the Andes to its...

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Ice Mummies (3 Parts) (1996 Video)

Producer

Tim Haines; Andrew Thompson

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 3 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 2000 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

1 (producer Andrew Thompson): In Siberia in 1993 archaeologists found the body of a young woman whose flesh, clothes and possessions were preserved by the permafrost. From her frozen body are emerging clues...

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Quechua, The (1974 Film, Video)

Director

Carlos Pasini

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Set in the southern Peruvian Andes, the film deals with a community of peasant agriculturalists who farm land between 12,000 and 14,000 feet above sea level, and concentrates mainly on a single family. The...

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Struggle for Sustainable Tourism, The: An Ecuadorian Case Study (2005)

Subject

Business studies; Development studies; FE; Travel & tourism

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes), £125.00

Study of a new project in ecotourism. The people of Santa Lucia, a farming community on the slopes of the Andes, were foreced to abandon their traditional way of life because of laws brought in to protect...

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