27 Nov 1968
Rivers of Fire and Ice
A Wildlife Safari through Africa.
The Canary Islands
There are few places on earth that have such a diverse variety of terrain and range of climates concentrated in a relatively small area - temperate coastline, scorching arid deserts and tundra, tropical rainforests and frozen snowcapped mountains. And there are few places that are as heavily exploited by humans, yet remain a wilderness.
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Peter Simonischek Himself - Narrator
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