The Columbian exchange [videorecording] / Columbus and the age of discovery. Produced for PBS by WGBH (Boston) and BBC Television (United Kingdom), NHK (Japan), RAI (Italy), RTP (Portugal), NDR (Germany) and TVE and SEQC (Spain). - 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. - Columbus and the age of discovery. . - Columbus and the age of discovery. .

VHS format. "2983". Exquisitely photographed, painstakingly researched, this 7-nation co-production chronicles Columbus's extraordinary journey and legacy. The difinitive series commemorating the quincentennial, this video history relives Columbus's daring and dangerous voyages and their momentous repercussions - for both the New World and the Old. Funding provided by XEROX and by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, George D. Smith Fund, Lowell Institute, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers. The companion book to Columbus and the Age of Discovery by Zvi Dor-Ner is published by William Morrow & Co.

This program examines the interchange of horses, cattle, corn, potatoes, and sugar cane between the Old World and the New, and the lasting impact of this interchange on the people of both worlds.


Columbus, Christopher.


International trade.
Indians of North America--History--16th century.
Indians of South America--Agriculture.
Indians of Central America--Agriculture.
Indians of North America--Agriculture.