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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Bostwana is an extremely popular safari destination. Often called "Old Africa," it is home to the Okavango Delta and the Kalahari Desert and has some of the largest remaining herds of wildlife in Africa. First we go to Eagle Island Camp at Xaxaba, which means the "island of tall trees." People from all over the world visit this camp to experience some of the most beautiful and unspoiled areas in the world. Next the Kwhai River Lodge at Moremi provides...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Gaboronne, Botswana - It's 2:25 on a weekday afternoon as four well-dressed men in their early 30s saunter into a small conference room, chat amicably and pour themselves tea. Just before 2:30, one reaches over to a small silver bell on the table. Ding, ding, ding. Numbers flash on the screen as they spring into action...Midrescue, fifty offered for twenty...I'll take 30...RPC Data at 92...The Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) is open for trading. The...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In The gods must be crazy, an empty Coke bottle drops from the sky near Xixo, an African San hunter, who tries to return the bottle to the gods that must have dropped it. In The gods must be crazy II, Xixo's children become accidental stowaways on a poacher's truck and Xixo sets out to find them.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The incredible story of a baby elephant who was born into a rescue camp in the wilderness of Botswana. When she is suddenly orphaned at one-month-old, it is up to the keepers who look after the herd to keep her alive. This one elephant's tale remains both intimate and epic, a journey of tragedy and triumph, because when her entire species faces extinction, one life means everything.
Series
On tour ) volume 124
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Kalahari is a unique habitat in Southern Africa, a world full of austere beauty and fascinating inhabitants. Only a few marks in the sand indicate the presence of Man. The Kalahari is often mistakenly described as a desert as in this region in the heart of Botswana it is more like an arid savannah and most visitors are surprised by the exceptionally large biodiversity of the local flora and fauna. On the border of the Central Kalahari Wild Reserve...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Follows Mma Ramotste, a recently bereaved woman, as she sets up the only woman-run Private Detective Agency in Botswana and her attempts to get it off the ground. She gets help from Mma Makutsi, her new secretary, and Mr. JLB Matekoni, the owner and super mechanic of the wonderful Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotste takes on cases, meets many new people who need her help - from a woman who thinks the man who has turned up at her door is not her father, to...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Each season, as the ever-thinning Arctic ice recedes, polar bears face a daunting challenge; Grizzly bears in British Columbia must use ingenuity and fancy footwork to collect their catch; The annual rains of the Serengeti draw in the greatest concentration of large animals on Earth; Each year, billions of sardines flood South Africa's east coast creating an action-packed feeding frenzy; Thousands of animals make the long trek toward the life saving...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Afloat: From the intimate vantage point of a senior community swimming pool, water and time suspend both body and memory. This film travels underwater and above water to create a gentle meditation on growing old, staying young, and living life.
The angelmakers: Tells the forgotten story of a large group of Hungarian women who killed their husbands with arsenic in 1929.
High Plains winter: This short film captures the lunar quality of the western...
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