"Your video travel gives you insight into how a once lush, tropical landscape became the sandy, rocky, sun-broiled basin that Death Valley has become today. You discover a land of contrasts, a seemingly inhospitable environment teeming with life-everything from marine organisms to coyotes, from packrats to back-packed tourists. But the largest part of your journey explores the past, recapturing the colorful role that Death Valley placed in America's westward movement and gold-rush era"--Container.
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