It’s 1981 and 22-year-old Yossi Ghinsberg is wrapping up a backpacking trip through South America. In La Paz, Bolivia, he and two friends meet an older Austrian expat, who entices them to join him on a trek into an uncharted corner of the Amazon rainforest. Yossi and his companions set out looking for adventure, but quickly discover they are ill-equipped for ... Show More
Nov 2023
Lost in the Rainforest | Man of Action | 3
<p>Kevin Gale desperately tries to organize a search party for Yossi Ghinsberg, who is still lost in the Bolivian rainforest. As days turn to weeks, Kevin worries he'll never see his friend alive again. Meanwhile, malnourished and injured, Yossi is growing increasingly disoriente ... Show More
43m 20s
Sep 2020
Australie : adoptée par les Aborigènes de la Terre d'Arnhem, elle raconte
Retour de terrain, c’est le podcast du magazine GEO. Chaque mois, nos reporters posent leurs valises et vous racontent leurs aventures, leurs découvertes et les rencontres qui les ont marqués.Ce septième épisode de Retour de terrain vous propose un entretien un peu spécial avec u ... Show More
46m 6s
Mar 2018
S1 E4: Through the Jungle
Led by their new friend, a giant talking snake, Aurela and her older sister Zaita begin their journey to return the magic crystal to an ancient Mayan city hidden deep within the rainforest. For more great shows, visit GZMShows.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon ... Show More
16m 39s
Mar 2022
The Green Sahara and African Neolithics
<p>The most striking environmental shift on the planet in the Holocene epoch was the greening of the Sahara. For thousands of years, the now-deserts of northern Africa were a mosaic of savannahs, river valleys, and shallow lakes. This unique environment produced the ways of life ... Show More
44m 32s
Jan 2020
The Dawn of the Age of Exploration
<p>What was it like to be on the cutting edge of the Age of Exploration, and what made these enormous leaps possible? To answer those questions, we follow the life of a composite character, a Portuguese sailor named Pedro, on his journeys to the coast of Africa and then India bey ... Show More
44m 27s
Jun 2022
The Austronesian Expansion, Part 1
<p>More than 4,000 years ago, a remarkable migration - one of the great journeys in human history - began in Taiwan. Within just a thousand years, people speaking the Austronesian languages spread out everywhere from the Philippines to Borneo to the previously uninhabited islands ... Show More
37m 38s