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Season 20 Episode 2: Africa: Desert Odyssey

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?

Genre:

Documentary , Family

Seasons:

45

Episodes:

697

Actor:

Quality:

HD

Status:

Returning Series

First Air:

1982

IMDb:

7.9