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Product Description This pack deals with the different ways in which humans move themselves around. The different types of transport for different purposes and over different regions are explored, and compared with each other. The program included in the pack is a simple type of adventure game, in which the users are asked to search for hidden treasure in a mapped area filled with different natural terrains. They have to select the appropriate type of transport to use to reach and locate the treasure, and at the higher levels of the program, they can design their own terrain and invent transportation suitable for it. About the Author Jane Glover is one of our preeminent conductors and an expert on Mozart. She studied music at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, and subsequently completed her doctorate on seventeenth-century Venetian opera. She is Music Director of Chicago's Music of the Baroque and conducts regularly with the Chicago Opera Theater. In addition to the New York City Opera, she has conducted at all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain -- at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the English National Opera and Glyndebourne -- and appears regularly at the BBC Proms. She works extensively in the United States, Europe and Australia. She is also a regular broadcaster, with highlights that include a television series on Mozart and the radio series "Opera House". She received the honor of Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2003.