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Journeys from the Centre of the Earth (4)
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Subjects:
Anthropology, Geography, Geology, History, Social Studies, Volcanoes |
Grade Level: JrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No |
Running Time: 4x50 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No |
Copyright Date: 2006
Available in French: No
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Following the success of the first series Hot Rocks, Iain Stewart takes viewers on a journey through time around the Pacific Rim, revealing how the histories and culture of people living in the most dangerous parts of the planet are written in the rocks under their feet. The series joins travel and culture with science; it is a thought-provoking and intellectually stimulating journey for the audience. The ‘Ring of Fire' is a belt of earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain chains encircling the Pacific Ocean. Sharing these geologically violent shores have been a remarkable diversity of human worlds; from the great civilizations of the Incas of the Peruvian Andes and the Buddhist kingdom of Srivijaya on Sumatra, to the most primitive hunter-gatherer peoples of Inuit Alaska and Indonesia to the wealthiest and most technologically advanced societies on the planet in Japan and California. Yet for all these remarkably different cultures, geology provides not only the fuel that drives human ingenuity and development, but also the seeds of their destruction. |
Links: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/journeys-centre-earth.shtml
