BBC - The Million Pound Bird Book (By David Attenborough)

A profile of the artist and ornithologist John James Audobon, famous for painting and cataloguing the birds of North America. Born in Haiti in 1785, John James Audobon was raised in France and to avoid the Napoleonic Wars he escaped to The United States in 1803, where he began to study birds. Unable to find a publisher for his Philadelphia book of Birds, he travelled to England where he found success and went on to publish subsequent books, the seven volumes of Birds of America featuring 435 hand-coloured lithographs of life-sized birds, and five volumes of Ornithological Biographies. Sold by subscription these books fetched $1,000 each.

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Tha Dogg Pound - That Was Then This Is Now

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Tha Dogg Pound -That Was Then This Is Now [2009]

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BBC - The 800 Million Pound Railway Station Complete Set

St Pancras station sits at the end of a massive 5.8 billion railway line- the first major British line to be built for over a century. This new series tells the story of the architects, engineers and spin doctors who entered a frantic two year race to make the Royal Opening on time. There were huge financial incentives, but many personal reputations at stake.

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