Burning Sands, The

“Raging Sands” features a scientist who journeys to Africa yearly to meet sandstorms and teach villagers how to protect their livelihood by building sand fences. The phenomenon of "booming" sand is explained with sound and graphics. “Unforgiving World” places more emphasis on the human body's response to the desert. It includes Army training in Arizona on desert survival tactics. It also shows the Marathon des Sables, a 150-mile foot race in the Sahara Desert that challenges an international roster of runners.

“Living Sands” includes footage on the endangered African elephant in the Namib Desert, and an explanation of the elephants' ability to detect water far underground. Also shown are the one-humped camels in the Australian Outback, fish in the Four Marshes area of Mexico, and an endangered species of crocodiles in the Sahara that has only five known survivors. Libraries with limited budgets should consider Raging Sands and Living Sands as the most useful for world cultures and life science classes respectively." - School Library Journal

The world's deserts are the hottest, driest, and harshest places on earth. They cover nearly one third of the earth's surface, across five continents, and pose the same grim challenge: how to survive? This three-part series will transport audiences to these last outposts of humanity and provide the viewer with a first-hand look at how life survives, and sometimes even thrives, in these arid lands, whether through instinct, science or sheer willpower. Deserts set grand backdrops for the most dramatic stories of endurance on our planet and here, against bleached sands and towering dunes, amid blistering salt flats and lush oasis, a journey of mystery and majestic beauty waits.