Wild Sands
About
Hot or cold, red or white, alive in ways that surprise you. One desert at a time, brought close enough to feel the wind.
Episodes
1. The Sahara: Africa's Sea of Sand
An ocean of sand the size of the United States, hot enough at noon to cook an egg and freezing by morning. The wind that crosses it carries dust three thousand miles to feed another world.
2. The Antarctic: The Coldest Desert
Most people picture a desert as hot and yellow. But the biggest one on Earth is white, silent, and the driest place there is.
3. The Sonoran: Where the Saguaro Grows
A desert with two rainy seasons, a cactus older than your great-great-grandparents, and a bird that hunts rattlesnakes for breakfast. Welcome to the only place on Earth where saguaros grow.
4. The Atacama: A Desert by the Sea
A desert pressed against the ocean — and one of the driest places on Earth. The fog rolls in thick off the cold Pacific, and people have learned how to drink it.
5. The Gobi: The Cold Wide Sky
The Gobi stretches across Mongolia and China, where winters freeze, summers bake, wild horses run, two-humped camels plod, and dinosaur bones lie just under the stones.
6. The Outback: Australia's Red Heart
Fly into the red heart of Australia. Meet kangaroos, dingoes, and a thorny lizard that drinks with its skin. Discover a desert that is one color by day and a different world by night.