The Grand Canal - A Gondola Ride - St. Mark's Square - The Basilica - The Campanile - The Doge's Palace - The Treasury - Murano Glass Blowing - Art Restoration.Welcome to Venice! Join Doug Jones, one of America's premier travelog producers, on a journey to one of themost romantic cities of the world. For a thousand years, "the most serene republic" has delighted visitors. Art, literature, and creative thought flourished here while the rest of Europe plummeted into the dark ages. Its streets of water and palaces rising from the sea formed a center of creative thought that had never existed in the world before. Today, Venice faces formidable challenges. This city, which has remained almost unchanged since the renaissance times, is being forced to cope with problems of polution, overcrowding and art decay.While the problems have by no means been conquered, there is a reason for hope. watch
The Grand Canal - A Gondola Ride - St. Mark's Square - The Basilica - The Campanile - The Doge's Palace - The Treasury - Murano Glass Blowing - Art Restoration.Welcome to Venice! Join Doug Jones, one of America's premier travelog producers, on a journey to one of themost romantic cities of the world. For a thousand years, "the most serene republic" has delighted visitors. Art, literature, and creative thought flourished here while the rest of Europe plummeted into the dark ages. Its streets of water and palaces rising from the sea formed a center of creative thought that had never existed in the world before. Today, Venice faces formidable challenges. This city, which has remained almost unchanged since the renaissance times, is being forced to cope with problems of polution, overcrowding and art decay.While the problems have by no means been conquered, there is a reason for hope. watch
Ketchikan - Juneau - Skagway - Glacier bay - College Fjord - Anchorage - Midnight Sun Express - Fairbanks - Prudhoe Bay - Denali National Park - Mt. McKinley - Columbia Glacier - The Great Land - Alaska! The name brings to mind a thousand images: majestic mountains, rivers of ice, endless tundra, vastness, spaciousness, freedom. All of these images are true. But for today's traveler it also means luxury. Amid some of the most rugged scenery of the world, luxurious cruise ships and elegant trains carry travelers north to the top of the world to view the extraordinary sights of the "Last Frontier." In THE GREAT ALASKA CRUISE, Doug Jones takes the viewer through the Inside Passage and across the Gulf of Alaska on the fabled Island Princess of Love Boat fame. Join 600 passengers fro a trip from Vancouver to Ketchikan, Juneau and Skagway. Experience the thrill of a helicopter trip to the Juneau icefields, ride on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad, see a salmon cannery in operation, sail thr watch
