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    The Desert Speaks
            Desert Treasures
                
                    
                        
                            Season 16
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 1607
                        
                    
                
            
            
            The desert yields a bounty of treasures, and The Desert Speaks travels to find out where these items come from and who values the unusual treasures. The search begins with a hunt for fish fossils in the Red Desert of Wyoming and then to the Painted Desert. Take a trip to Tucson, Arizona to see meteorite collector Robert Haag. Finally, the Lost Dutchman Mine in the Superstition Mountains.
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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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            Venture across the spectacular and colorful Argentine Patagonia.
        
        
     
    
                            
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            We travel to central Chile to the vineyards that have made Chilean wines famous.
        
        
     
    
                            
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            Tracing the San Andreas Fault.
        
        
     
    
                            
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            Exploring the isolated ecosystem of Catalina Island.
        
        
     
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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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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            Travel with host David Yetman through the Patagonia landscape.
        
        
     
    
                            
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            Trace the Rio San Miguel through Sonora, Mexico.
        
        
     
    
                            
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            Discvoer how adobe was used in the past and is still used today.
        
        
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    