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The Desert Speaks
Heart of a Pueblo
Season 15
Episode 1503
Renowned architect Bob Vint travels with host David Yetman to explore pre-Hispanic to modern plazas and examine their unifying characteristics. Travel from Chichen Itza to one of the world’s largest plazas in Mexico City. Then discover how courtyards are to the home as plazas are to the town and uncover how plazas were used by people in the New World thousands of years before Spanish contact.
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The final episode in the Galapagos Islands features some of the “newer” islands.
Host David Yetman hops into a motorcycle sidecar to explore Wyoming’s Red Desert
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Travel through the desert with the inventor of goat packing, John Mionczynski.
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Learn how Tohono O’Odham tribal members are passing down traditions.
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Explore Andean Condors and learn their ritualistic significance to native people.
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Examine pre-Incan ruins before venturing to the skies for a view of the Nazca lines.
