Wild Patagonia, Episode 1, Fire and ice /

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Imprint:London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2015.
Description:1 online resource (58 minutes)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13665056
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Other authors / contributors:Stone, Tuppence, director, producer.
Cabrera, Santiago, narrator.
BBC Earth (Firm), film distributor.
BBC Worldwide Ltd., film distributor.
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Title from resource description page (viewed January 15, 2019).
Narrator, Santiago Cabrera.
In English.
Summary:Patagonia - a mysterious and intangible place at the southern tip of South America, stretching across Chile and Argentina, made up of strange landscapes, huge mountain ranges and windswept plains. This series brings this little-known region and its surprising wildlife to the screens. It reveals how life survives and flourishes in these environments, like the ducklings that fling themselves into glacial melt waters on the first day of life to the condors who must master the wild winds. It also discovers how humans interact with this wild environment meeting the Gauchos, Patagonia's cowboys and visiting the state-of-the-art wind farms that are harnessing the power of the open plains. It is a fascinating series that reveals Patagonia as a lawless, powerful and demanding land - but shows how for those who know how, it is a paradise where the odds are in their favour. Patagonia invites you into a rarely seen South American wilderness, home to surprising creatures who survive in environments that range from the mighty Andes Mountains to Cape Horn. Discover the secret lives of pumas and hummingbirds. Soar with condors over glacial peaks and explore monkey puzzle forests from the time of dinosaurs. Ride with extreme kayakers over raging waterfalls, and with Patagonia's cowboys - the gauchos - as they round up wild horses.