CSPAN3 Reel America Desert Venture - 1948 July 13, 2024
Narrator 11,000 miles from San Francisco, 8000 miles from new york, there lies a primeval desert, a mass of drifting sand and sunbaked earth, one third the size of the United States, a place of ancient glories, long ago a center of thriving trade where came the merchants from india and china to barter their wares for spices, and fell into eclipse and remained until very recent years remote, unknown and isolated. Most of its people were the bedouin camel herders and shepherds who roamed the area,...
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