DVD & Book Special--Costa Rica: Quest for Pura Vida
Special offer available now for DVD & book about Richard
Bangs' first Adventure with Purpose in Egypt
DVD:
This one-hour public television special follows Richard Bangs as he explores the small but potent package of a country, Costa Rica—the ecological nexus of North and South America. The people there are on a tear to preserve the extravagant biodiversity of their national field of dreams, and it seems to be working. Richard is off to find out the secret to their success, and to learn the deeper meaning of Pura Vida, a widely used Costa Rica greeting that literally means "pure life" as he traverses a land often cited as a green beacon to the world, as well as a place proclaimed "the happiest country on earth!" Richard begins his journey on the Pacific side, where the complex ecological mosaic of the Osa Peninsula encircles Corcovado National Park. Then he explores the beaches at Punta Islita, Palo Verde National Park, and the Monteverde Cloud Forest, before heading to Tortuguero National Park, a tropical rain forest on the Caribbean coast.
DVD Specifications
- Two hours of features and extras
- Shot and mastered in HDCam 1080i broadcast format
- Anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1 ratio)
- English sound track with English subtitles
- Plays in all countries and regions
- Dolby digital stereo audio
DVD Extras
- Exclusive never-before-seen footage
- Extended clips of sites
- Behind-the-scenes glimpses
- High-resolution photo gallery
- Plays in all countries and regions
- Dolby digital stereo audio
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Book--Richard Bangs' Adventures with
Purpose: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Earth (Paperback)
This book was written in 2007 after Richard Bangs' first quest in Egypt
for Adventures with Purpose. Its lead essay is titled The
Quest for the Lord of the Nile. The book also includes 15 additional
essays written by Richard about some of his adventures prior to
filming Adventures with Purpose.
Running such wild rivers
as the crocodile-infested Tekaze in Ethiopia, Richard Bangs used to live for the
adrenalin, for the rush of reveling in the misery of hardship and sidestepping
death around every bend. Now a respected conservationist, he still travels to
demanding exotic environments, but with a new, more sober objective: he wants to
save these special places. Bangs' personal experiences of "witnessing many
special places preserved and lost" led him to write Adventures with Purpose, and
the book follows the author to Bosnia, Libya, Panama, the American West, Rwanda,
Thailand, and more as he seeks out disappearing cultures, peoples, habitats, and
ecosystems - particularly rivers - so that he can show readers that the loss of
these special places will be a catastrophe. Written in the vivid, intimate style
that made his earlier books both critical and commercial successes, Richard
Bangs' Adventures with Purpose is an unforgettable composite portrait of a world
in peril and an inspiring guide to rescuing it.
The lead essay is 7500
words on Egypt: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, and the book contains
additional essays on other Richard Bangs adventures.
350 pages
more info on Adventures with Purpose
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