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The Desert Speaks
Season 2, Episode 1: What is a Desert?
Season 2
Episode 1
Everyone has an image of “the desert.” It’s usually a hot, dry place with not too much happening. But what is a desert, really? In this program, look for a broader definition of the term “desert.” The show may challenge your ideas about the way you look at Mother Nature’s more arid regions. There are different seasons, different plants and animals, and even different types of deserts.
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In Chile’s Atacama Desert people have lived for thousands of years in a land without rain.
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We trek inland to examine a cross section of the Patagonia desert into the Andes.
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We travel to central Chile to the vineyards that have made Chilean wines famous.
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Travel along the coastline of Espiritu Santo Island with host David Yetman.
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The famed Sea of Cortez boasts the greatest marine diversity in the world.
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Continue the journey through the gorgeously diverse Patagonia landscape.
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Discvoer how adobe was used in the past and is still used today.