Best of National Geographic Channel 5-DVD Collection

Author: Alec BaldwinBrand: National GeographicFeatures: Our Best of National Geographic Channel DVD collection makes the perfect gift. Contains Megastructures, Egyptian Secrets of the Afterlife, Climbing Redwood Giants, Planet Carnivore, and Through the Lens. 5 discs; 5 programs; approximately 360 minutes. Format: DolbyRelease Date: 01-12-2010Details: MegaStructures: Volume 1 MegaStructures takes an eye-popping look at some of the greatest structures and machines ever created. Get inside these superstructures, and uncover the cogs, gears, bells, and whistles that make them work. Egyptian Secrets of the Afterlife To the ancient Egyptians, life after death was a high-stakes underworld journey fraught with terrifying obstacles: fiery lakes of death, battles with bona fide monsters, and ultimately eternal death or resurrection with the sun. It's a journey each Egyptian believed was real, and for the pharaoh the stakes were even higher—the entire cosmos depended on the king's successful jo