Wonders of the African world : with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / Wall to Wall Television for BBC and PBS in association with ITEL ; written and presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; directors, Nick Godwin, Helena Appio.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., author, narrator.

Contributor:

Godwin, Nick, director.

Appio, Helena, director.

Goold, Ben, producer.

Wall to Wall Television, producer.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), producer.

British Broadcasting Corporation, producer.

PBS Home Video, distributor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Civilization.

Africa.

Civilization.

Genre:

Television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

3 videocassettes (approximately 360 mins.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [1999]

System Details:

VHS format.

analog

magnetic

VHS

Summary:

Documentary film presents Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on the journey from Zanzibar to Timbuktu, the Nile River Valley to Great Zimbabwe, the slave coast of Guinea to the medieval monasteries of Ethiopia in search of the lost wonders of the African world.

Contents:

[Tape 1] Black kingdoms of the Nile; The Swahili coast (120 min.)

[Tape 2] The slave kingdoms; The holy land (120 min.)

[Tape 3] The road to Timbuktu; Lost cities of the South (120 min.)

Participant:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., narrator.

Credits:

Writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; series producer, Ben Goold ; executive producer Jonathan Hewes.

Notes:

Originally broadcast in 1998.

Companion volume of the same title also published in 1999.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0780628659

OCLC:

42811483

Publisher Number:

B8104,B8106,B8107 PBS Home Video

B8105 (set) PBS Home Video