Great courses (Compact disc)

"Course number 3962."

Presents 24 30-minute lectures discussing notable expeditions of exploration from premodern times to today, including the explorers who led them and these missions' varied and complex motivations

Compact discs

In two containers (20 cm)

Teaching Company: 8032 (audio CDs: PC3962A; containers: IC3962A-01, IC3962A-02; course guidebook: PB3962A)

Unabridged

Lecturer: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

Volume 1, disc 1, lecture 1.

Earliest explorers --

Disc 1, lecture 2.

Scientific voyage of Pytheas the Greek --

Disc 2, lecture 3.

St. Brendan--the travels of an Irish monk --

Disc 2, lecture 4.

Xuanzang's journey to the West --

Disc 3, lecture 5.

Leif Eriksson the Lucky --

Disc 3, lecture 6.

Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville --

Disc 4, lecture 7.

Ibn Battuta--never the same route twice --

Disc 4, lecture 8.

Portugal's great leap forward --

Disc 5, lecture 9.

Enigmatic Christopher Columbus --

Disc 5, lecture 10.

Magellan and the advent of globalization --

Disc 6, lecture 11.

Ruthless ambition of the Conquistadors --

Disc 6, lecture 12.

Henry Hudson : death on the ice --

Volume 2, disc 7, lecture 13.

Jesuits on a global mission --

Disc 7, lecture 14.

Captain Cook maps the world --

Disc 8, lecture 15.

Alexander von Humboldt--explorer genius --

Disc 8, lecture 16.

Jefferson dispatches Lewis and Clark --

Disc 9, lecture 17.

Sir John Franklin's epic disaster --

Disc 9, lecture 18.

Ida Pfeiffer--Victorian extreme traveler --

Disc 10, lecture 19.

Japan discovers the West --

Disc 10, lecture 20.

Dr. Livingstone and Mary Kingsley in Africa --

Disc 11, lecture 21.

Arctic feats and fates --

Disc 11, lecture 22.

Antarctic rivalries --

Disc 12, lecture 23.

A deep-sea dive into the Mariana Trench --

Disc 12, lecture 24.

Race to outer space