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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Wild China : a land of history, mystery and extraordinary diversity = Jin xiu Zhonghua / BBC Worldwide Ltd. ; 2 entertain Video Limited.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

2 videodiscs (353 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Journey across China from the peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold and see a dazzling array of mysterious, beautiful, wild and rare creatures.

Subjects:

Natural history -- China.

Human-animal relationships -- China.

China -- Description and travel.

China -- History.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Other Author:

Chapman, Philip (Television producer)

Taylor, Barnaby, 1972-

Hill, Bernard, 1944-2024

British Broadcasting Corporation.

BBC Worldwide Ltd.

2 Entertain (Firm)

BBC Video (Firm)

Other Title:

Jin xiu Zhonghua

Mei li Zhongguo

Notes:

Special features: 'Hunting dragons': a making of.

Widescreen (16:9 enhanced).

Accompanies book: Wild China: natural wonders of the world's most enigmatic land, Yale University Press, 2008.

Series producer, Phil Chapman ; episodes produced by George Chan, Kathryn Jeffs, Gavin Maxwell and Charlotte Scott ; music composer, Barnaby Taylor.

Narrator, Bernard Hill.

DVD, NTSC, Dolby digital; 5.1 surround sound.

Narration in English with optional subtitles in English or traditional Chinese.

Contents:

Disc one: Heart of the dragon ; Shangri-La ; Tibet (ca. 176 min.) -- Disc two: Beyond the Great Wall ; Land of the panda ; Tides of change ; Special feature: hunting dragons (ca. 177).

ISBN:

1419867482

9781419867484

1419867482

6312004325

9786312004325

Publisher Number:

1000038278

Other Number:

216934182

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

222600

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 508.51 Wild Chi