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The Desert Speaks
Peru's Amazon Desert
Season 16
Episode 1608
Follow host David Yetman and his brother, geologist Dick Yetman, as they descend from the Andes Mountains into the heart of the Amazon Desert. Travel by 4x4 down a treacherous one way road through a cloud covered forest. As they continue to the bottom of a canyon deeper than the Grand Canyon, they cross one of the rivers that helps form the Amazon, the Río Marañon.
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