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2017-18 DISCOVERY WORLD TRAVEL ADVENTURE SERIES Explore Worlds of Wonder …Right Here at Home! • 13 Exciting Films! THE COLORADO PLATEAU: RED ROCK COUNTRY Gray Warriner Join us on a journey to one of the most beautiful and mysterious places on earth. From the snow-covered South Rim, descend by mule-train to the warmth of the inner canyon. Check your life vests! The Colorado River is our highway through the heart of the Grand Canyon; an adventure for all ages...the ultimate river journey. A WEEK IN PARIS Marlin Darrah Flamboyant and mysterious, Gothic and modern, refined and bawdy – Paris is all of these, with room for both grandeur and coziness. It’s a city imbued with history, a center of art, culture, and fashion. But it’s also a city of gardens and of cafes where people-watching is the raison d’etre. ADVENTURES WITH ADAM RAVETCH–LAND, SEA & AIR Adam Ravetch If you venture with Adam Ravetch to the Philippines, Indonesia, Mexico, and British Columbia, you will find yourself underwater in the center of a school of tuna, side-by-side with a manatee and her calf, then diving 90 feet below the surface as a tiger shark attacks! These scenes are only the beginning of a truly exciting, once-in-a-lifetime adventure. THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL, LOS ANGELES TO SANTA FE Bill Behrenbruch This is a journey through history as we follow the American explorers and trappers, the Mexicans, the Spanish and the Indians, and maybe even the Anasazi. Take in the beautiful mountains, canyons, rivers, waterfalls and wildlife. It’s all here, off the beaten track, along “The Old Santa Fe Trail.” FOREVER FRANCE Monty Brown Monty and Marsha Brown take us on a tour of the four coasts of France - the English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and the River Rhine, plus a return to Paris. Join them for a new look at an old favorite and discover some unexpected connections, contemporary and historical, between France and the United States. ISRAEL, SPIRIT OF THE HOLY LAND Stan Walsh Legendary tales from the Torah – celebrated words from Early Era Scripture – these are our historic road maps guiding us throughout biblical and modern Israel. Our imagination will link the landscape to history. Our eyes will admire the creativity, strength, and spirit that turned hot, dry desert land into a modern Garden of Eden. THE WORLD IS ROUND Steve McCurdy This is an insider’s look at the sights, sounds, people and places that have inspired producer Steven McCurdy’s wanderlust and imagination. We will journey to fourteen cities on four continents; from the Ganges River in India where we experience the ancient city of Varanasi to the Fjords of Norway in search of Steve’s ancestral home near Oslo and Risor. CHINA: BEYOND THE GREAT WALL Karin Muller Through the eyes of businessmen and farmers, domestic workers and line-dancing matriarchs, Karin Muller documented China’s extraordinary social, economic, and political transformation. Explore the many faces of this vast and complicated land as it reveals the kindness and humanity of a people too often defined only by statistics and stereotypes. ON ASSIGNMENT – ALASKA WITH RICH REID Rich Reid With his entertaining narrative intertwining images and short films covering Alaska’s vast landscapes and fascinating flora and fauna, professional photographer Rich Reid will bring you along on some of his most memorable Alaskan assignments. EAST AFRICAN SOJOURN Jessica Wunderlich Uganda has moved past its own disreputable past with grace and open arms, growing into a country of “the friendliest people in the world.” From the thatched-roof mud huts of South Sudan to the languid shores of Lake Victoria, we follow the journey of a small group of inspiring and determined young orphan girls who are working towards an education against all odds. GUATEMALA: THE LAND OF THE MAYA Brent Winebrenner Guatemala is a land of amazing natural and cultural diversity that is just beginning to emerge from the shadow of a long civil war. A land with deep roots, anchored in the mysteries of the Lost Kingdoms of the Maya. Explore the achievements of the ancient Maya by visiting fabled places like El Mirador, Tikal and Yaxha. HOW TO TRAVEL THE WORLD FOR FREE Michael Wigge This is the unbelievable attempt of award- winning comedian, Michael Wigge, to travel 25,000 miles from Europe to Antarctica, without any money. This unusual travel diary combines adventure with humorous situations and insightful interviews about people’s relationship with money. A must for every travel and adventure fan! THE SOUL OF MOROCCO Rick Ray Imagine the eternal Sahara with its windswept mountains of orange-gold sand, colorful markets with their fruits, tapestries and mint tea and merchants selling Kilim rugs and goatskin lamps. This is the Morocco that was, and is. Rick Ray winds his way through exotic Morocco - and you’re along for the ride. 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