Nature Episode 20.02 Africa: Desert Odyssey

Nature Episode 20.02 Africa: Desert Odyssey

Episode Premiere

September 16, 2001

Genre

Documentary

Production Company

Thirteen

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/

Information

Episode Premiere

September 16, 2001

Genre

Documentary

Period

1982 -

Production Co

Thirteen

Distributor

PBS

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/

Synopsis

For centuries, the Tuareg people have braved the brutal Sahara to trade in salt, a precious cargo once worth its weight in gold. In this episode of AFRICA, Adam Ilius,salt production a young boy of nine, crosses hundreds of miles of desolate and dangerous desert on his first trans-Saharan salt caravan.

After months of traveling, will Adam make it to Bilma, Niger to sell the caravan's salt for necessary food and clothing? Or will the shifting sands of the desert spell disaster for this tenacious group?

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