Ian Wright

Which countries don't have rivers? Which ones have North Korean embassies? Who drives on the "wrong" side of the road? How many national economies are bigger than California's? And where can you still find lions in the wild? You'll learn answers to these questions and many more in Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds. This one-of-a-kind atlas is packed with eye-opening analysis (Which nations have had female leaders?), whimsical insight (Where can't you...

Ian Wright has been sent to survive in the Kalahari Desert, one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. He comes face to face with big cats, snakes and the fear of being crushed by an elephant, and is given a crash course in survival by the ultimate hunter-gatherers - the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert.

Holly Morris explores the bustling Delhi Metropolis, the Chandi Chowk market, the Red Fort of the Mughal emperor and boats along the Yamuna River. Ian Wright explores Delhi old city, takes a metro to Jhandelwalan, then heads south to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal and learn about the Mughal Empire at the Red Fort. In New Delhi, he tours the President of India's house and stays at the Imperial hotel before riding my motorbike to Hariewar and bathes in...

Admire Uluru, dive the Great Barrier Reef, experience Surfers Paradise, visit the Port Arthur prison colony site, come fact to face with Tasmania's wildlife, mine for opals in Cooper Pedy and attend a traditional Aboriginal corroboree ritual--Globe Trekker's Ultimate Australia offers all these experiences and more.

Everywhere you go in the world, you find monuments to a different age. Each civilization has left its mark. In this special three-part DVD, explore three different eras of the great historic sites of the world, from the New World Mayans to the Ancient Egyptians; medieval European cities and palaces and the earliest sites of the New World and the Americas; the 19th and 20th Century battlefields of the World Wars, and post war relics and icons of power...