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Valley of the Inca (1984 Video)

Subject

Agriculture; Archaeology

Distribution

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

Looks at the Cusichaca research project, lead by Dr Ann Kendall, which is investigating the possibility of re-establishing original Inca farm terraces and irrigation canals in Peru in the high Andes after...

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BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV and Radio Programme Requests

Date

3 Feb 2012, 11:36

Author

Markeda Cole

Post Type

Post

For the week ending 27 January 2012 the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include programmes on extreme medicine, science and nature, geography and the West End musical. 1....

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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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Man at High Altitude (1977 Film)

Director

D A Heath

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows how a man acclimatizes and how many animal species adapt to high altitude. Looks at the body build of the Quechua Indians and at their biologically successful life in the Andes, contrasted with the...

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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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