Namaqualand: Diary of a Desert Garden (Natural World season 4, episode 2) (1985) (no video link)
Title
Namaqualand: Diary of a Desert Garden (Natural World season 4, episode 2) (1985) (no video link)
Subject
South Africa--Flora and fauna
Flowers
URL
No video link found. This content is associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library originally recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. No link has yet been found to provide online access and the original videotape has not yet been digitized.
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Description
Content Description from WorldCat (https://www.worldcat.org/title/namaqualand-diary-of-a-desert-garden/oclc/21910077) :
Explains how South Africa's Namaqualand region, a vast area composed primarily of desert, rocks, and mountains, supports over four thousand species of flowers. Relates how its winter rainfall, which does not completely evaporate, accounts for this unique floral environment.
Ephemera: Text saved from original ephemera. Small clipping from program guide. "8:00 Nature (CC). "Namaqualand: Diary of a Desert Garden" -- An arid, windy semi-desert in Southwest Africa is known the world over for its specatcular display of flowers." Handwritten note: "5/26/1985."
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Explains how South Africa's Namaqualand region, a vast area composed primarily of desert, rocks, and mountains, supports over four thousand species of flowers. Relates how its winter rainfall, which does not completely evaporate, accounts for this unique floral environment.
Ephemera: Text saved from original ephemera. Small clipping from program guide. "8:00 Nature (CC). "Namaqualand: Diary of a Desert Garden" -- An arid, windy semi-desert in Southwest Africa is known the world over for its specatcular display of flowers." Handwritten note: "5/26/1985."
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
George Page (host and narrator)
David Attenborough (host)
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
British Broadcasting Company (BBC)
Date
1985 September 22
Citation
“Namaqualand: Diary of a Desert Garden (Natural World season 4, episode 2) (1985) (no video link),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed March 19, 2025, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/473.