CSPAN3 Reel America Desert Venture - 1948 July 13, 2024
Narrator 11,000 miles from San Francisco. 8000 miles from new york. Desert, a a primeval 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 kmart and from india and china to barter wheres to spices, and for fell into eclipse and remained until recent years remote, unknown and isolated. Most of its people were the anduin camel herders shepherds who roamed from one oasis to another in the wake of scattered rains that produced shortlived patches of vegetation. Monotony and poverty were the common...