Centuries before the world's oceans became a global trade highway, Chinese seafarers set sail to faraway lands to exchange commodities. Now, Historian Sam Willis retraces the golden era of maritime trade to uncover a legacy that culminated in one of the greatest armadas of all time, and discover parallels between the world then and now.
“动感亚洲自我挑战越野赛”是由“Action Asia Events”主办的越野挑战竞赛活动,共分为香港、台湾、汶莱、马来西亚、杜拜五站。国家地理频道负责全程转播五个国家所举行的这场竞赛,今年共派出三组摄影队前来台湾,录参赛选手行前准备工作与体能锻炼情形,也将台湾独特的自然景观、人文风貌、美食特产介绍给全世界。
Following the success of World’s Busiest Railway 2015, this new three-part series presented by Ade Adepitan, Anita Rani, Ant Anstead and Dan Snow takes viewers to the heart of three iconic public spaces in the city of New York: one of the busiest and most complex metropolises in the world.
Filmed as live from Grand Central Terminal, the New Fulton Fish Market and Central Park, the series offers a 360-degree insight into the lives of New Yorkers - how they get about the city, how they are fed, and how they relax.
Immersive films will show how transport, commerce, culture, leisure, food and retail play key roles in the life in the city, and the series will take viewers behind the scenes of some of the city’s biggest shops and organisations, as well as deep underground at major engineering projects to tell the story of New York, its people, and its history.
In this three-part series for BBC One, Sue will explore the lives of the people living close the river and the challenges facing India as it transforms into one the world's great economic powers. The Ganges is the story of modern India in one spectacular river.
Sue Perkins follows her journeys up the Mekong and through Kolkata with an epic travel series down the length of the Ganges, which is worshipped by Hindus as a living Goddess. Sue will travel from the sacred source of the river, high in the Himalayas, through the industrial and agricultural heartlands of the Gangetic Plain and the ancient city of Varanasi, to the vast delta on the Bay of Bengal.
She will join pilgrims seeking to wash clean the sins of alifetime at the Ganges' source; work alongside fishermen and farmers in the Sunderbarns, who share their forests with man-eating tigers; and join some of the thousands of young women leaving rural villages and moving to the cities to find work and freedom.
Sue says: 「I've travelled the length of the Ganges, from the oxygen-starved peaks of the Himalayas to the vast delta in West Bengal, meeting a huge array of characters on the way. Expect cows on bridges, India's Most Energetic Monk, and me, in a dress. I can't wait for you to see it.」