Product Description

Ring of Fire – an Indonesian Odyssey

Type: 3 DVDs – 5 films of 50 minutes each
Emmy Award Winning DVD of programmes shown on BBC and PBS
Programmes:
1. Spice Island Saga: The Blair brothers sail with the Bugis pirates on a 2,000 mile voyage through the Spice Isalnds in search of the Greater Bird of Paradise.
2. Dance of the Warrior: The brothers camp among the Komodo dragons, witness the lethal equestrian war sport of Sumba, and in New Guinea they live among the Asmat tribe of cannibals and headhunters.
3. East of Krakatoa: From the erupting volcano, the Blair brothers descend into a world of medieval courts, mystical shadow plays, forgers of magical swords and healers with supernatural powers.
4. Dream Wanderers of Borneo: For 800 miles through uncharted rainforest, by canoe and on foot, the Blairs seek – and find- the last of the dream wandering tribe of nomadic Punan Dyaks, believed to no longer exist.
5. Beyond the Ring of Fire: After his brother’s death rites in Bali, Lawrence takes a boatload of friends – including Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall – on an adventure from the cannibal swamps of New Guinea westwards back through the island cultures in a retrospective of the changing archipelago.

Background: This is a truly stunning and mesmerising series. Made by Lawrence and Lorne Blair, it is the story of their epic ten year sea journey across the Indonesian archipeligo.

Order Number: DVD1