Access to this video is a benefit for members through PBS Passport.
Up Next
Back to Show
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.
Support Provided By
Unlock with PBS Passport
26:20
In Chile’s Atacama Desert people have lived for thousands of years in a land without rain.
Unlock with PBS Passport
26:20
We trek inland to examine a cross section of the Patagonia desert into the Andes.
Unlock with PBS Passport
26:20
We travel to central Chile to the vineyards that have made Chilean wines famous.
26:20
Travel along the coastline of Espiritu Santo Island with host David Yetman.
26:20
The famed Sea of Cortez boasts the greatest marine diversity in the world.
26:20
Continue the journey through the gorgeously diverse Patagonia landscape.
26:20
Discvoer how adobe was used in the past and is still used today.