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An open-water thriller about one man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling, and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the...

This program begins with William T. Sherman's brilliant March to the Sea, which brought the war to the heart of Georgia and the Carolinas and spelled the end of the Confederacy. It continues with Lincoln's second inauguration, the fall of Petersburg and then Richmond to Grant's army, and the westward flight of Lee's tattered Army of Northern Virginia to a tiny crossroads town called Appomattox Court House, where the dramatic and deeply moving surrender...

Tracing the trials of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who was shipwrecked off the gulf coast of Texas in 1528 and lived among Indians for eight years, this program reveals how some early Spanish explorers grew to empathize with the plight of Native Americans. Through the writings of Cabeza de Vaca and excerpts of the famous argument of Dominican friar, Bartolomé de las Casas--the first appointed Protector of the Indians by the Spanish crown--in...

Discusses the influence various native American and foreign traditions and contemporary musicians have had on the development of American folk music.

"This is a straight solo baritone guitar record (except instrument changes as noted); edits but no overdubs. And as in the previous solo baritone guitar record, One Quiet Night, the basic tuning used throughout this recording is A D G C E A ... I varied the tuning by keeping the same intervallic relationship but moving the entire tuning up and down on a tune-by-tune basis in a range form Ab to C."--Container.