The shape of the world

Author

Rod Caird

Call Number

• DVD 526 S5291 (CEN)

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Edition

Full screen version.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Patrick Stewart, host.

Publication Information

[United States] : Acorn Media, 2009.

Physical Description

3 videodiscs (306 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Reveals how maps shape not only our sense of geography, but also our social, political, and even religious thinking. In the past, mapmakers have provoked assassinations, won or lost wars, and opened the ways to wealth and power. Today, they help answer the crises of epidemics and climate change. Narrated by Patrick Stewart.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally aired on PBS in 1991.

Special features: 20-page viewer's guide ; "The Chartbusters": pioneers in cartography ; text interview with Patrick Stewart ; exclusive web extras.

Contents

• Heaven and earth
• Secrets of the sea
• Staking a claim
• Empire!
• Pictures of the invisible
• The writing on the screen.