Great Splendors of the World

The high production values of Reader's Digest videos are paired with the elegance of changing seasons in Splendors of Nature, one of three volumes in this visually sumptuous series. We visit India during autumn after the monsoon rains; spend winter in the Japanese Alps where the snow monkeys lounge around in hot tubs, travel along the biggest living structure in the world during spring--the Great Barrier Reef where once a year the whole reef simultaneously releases eggs & sperm in a sexual spawning blizzard that produces new little baby coral reefs everywhere (cigarette, please), and finally, watch the migration of Alaskan caribou during a beautiful summer on the Arctic tundra. The other two programs in the set are Imperial Splendors and Ancient Splendors. Highly recommended. Aud: I, J, H, P. (N. Plympton)