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Dr No (Blu-ray disc)
Jack Lord, Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman, Eunice Gayson, Ursula Andress, …
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R231
Discovery Miles 2 310
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Secret Service agent James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to Jamaica
to investigate the murder of one of his colleagues. It transpires
that the island is being used as a base for the terrorist
organisation SPECTRE, who, under the guidance of the despotic Dr No
(Joseph Wiseman), have developed technology to divert rockets
launched from Cape Canaveral. The first big-screen outing for 007
features original Bond Girl Ursula Andress emerging from the ocean
in memorably revealing swimwear.
In 1865, when San Francisco's Daily Evening Bulletin asked its
readers if it were not time for the city to finally establish a
public park, residents had only private gardens and small urban
squares where they could retreat from urban crowding, noise, and
filth. Five short years later, city supervisors approved the
creation of Golden Gate Park, the second largest urban park in
America. Over the next sixty years, and particularly after 1900, a
network of smaller parks and parkways was built, turning San
Francisco into one of the nation's greenest cities. In Building San
Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930, Terence Young traces the history of
San Francisco's park system, from the earliest city plans, which
made no provision for a public park, through the private garden
movement of the 1850s and 1860, Frederick Law Olmsted's early
involvement in developing a comprehensive parks plan, the design
and construction of Golden Gate Park, and finally to the expansion
of green space in the first third of the twentieth century. Young
documents this history in terms of the four social ideals that
guided America's urban park advocates and planners in this period:
public health, prosperity, social coherence, and democratic
equality. He also differentiates between two periods in the history
of American park building, each defined by a distinctive attitude
towards "improving" nature: the romantic approach, which prevailed
from the 1860s to the 1880s, emphasized the beauty of nature, while
the rationalistic approach, dominant from the 1880s to the 1920s,
saw nature as the best setting for uplifting activities such as
athletics and education. Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930
maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape
design in urban America and offers new insights into the
transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality
of life through its world-famous park system.
Who are the real campers? Through-hiking backpackers traversing the
Appalachian Trail? The family in an SUV making a tour of national
parks and sleeping in tents at campgrounds? People committed to the
RV lifestyle who move their homes from state to state as season and
whim dictate? Terence Young would say: all of the above. Camping is
one of the country's most popular pastimes-tens of millions of
Americans go camping every year. Whether on foot, on horseback, or
in RVs, campers have been enjoying themselves for well more than a
century, during which time camping's appeal has shifted and
evolved. In Heading Out, Young takes readers into nature and
explores with them the history of camping in the United
States.Young shows how camping progressed from an impulse among
city-dwellers to seek temporary retreat from their exhausting
everyday surroundings to a form of recreation so popular that an
industry grew up around it to provide an endless supply of
ever-lighter and more convenient gear. Young humanizes camping's
history by spotlighting key figures in its development and a
sampling of the campers and the variety of their excursions.
Readers will meet William H. H. Murray, who launched a craze for
camping in 1869; Mary Bedell, who car camped around America for
12,000 miles in 1922; William Trent Jr., who struggled to end
racial segregation in national park campgrounds before World War
II; and Carolyn Patterson, who worked with the U.S. Department of
State in the 1960s and 1970s to introduce foreign service personnel
to the "real" America through trailer camping. These and many
additional characters give readers a reason to don a headlamp, pull
up a chair beside the campfire, and discover the invigorating and
refreshing history of sleeping under the stars.
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Valley of Eagles (DVD)
John McCallum, Nadia Gray, Jack Warner, Christopher Lee, Mary Laura Wood, …
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R151
Discovery Miles 1 510
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Terence Young directs this 1950s espionage thriller starring John
McCallum, Nadia Gray, Jack Warner and Christopher Lee. When the
Swedish scientist Dr. Nils Ahlen (McCallum) discovers a means of
transmuting sound impulses into electrical currents, his invention
inevitably becomes the sought after tool of governments, businesses
and criminals everywhere. When his wife Helga (Mary Laura Wood) and
key parts of his invention go missing, Ahlen enlists Inspector
Peterson (Warner) of the local police to help him track them down.
The quest leads them to snowy northern terrain where a showdown
with the abductors beckons...
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Red Sun (Blu-ray disc)
Charles Bronson, Alain Delon, Toshirô Mifune, Capucine, Ursula Andress, …
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R458
R362
Discovery Miles 3 620
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Kuroda (Toshiro Mifune), a samurai warrior, is accompanying a
Japanese diplomat to the US. They are carrying a golden,
jewel-encrusted sword to present as a token of goodwill to the
president, however they are ambushed by two outlaws - Gauche (Alain
Delon) and Link (Charles Bronson). When Gauche double-crosses Link
and keeps the sword for himself, Link joins forces with Kuroda to
return the sword to its rightful owner.
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Red Sun (DVD)
Toshirô Mifune, Capucine, Charles Bronson, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress, …
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R365
R237
Discovery Miles 2 370
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Kuroda (Toshiro Mifune), a samurai warrior, is accompanying a
Japanese diplomat to the US. They are carrying a golden,
jewel-encrusted sword to present as a token of goodwill to the
president, however they are ambushed by two outlaws - Gauche (Alain
Delon) and Link (Charles Bronson). When Gauche double-crosses Link
and keeps the sword for himself, Link joins forces with Kuroda to
return the sword to its rightful owner.
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