Journeys to the Ends of the Earth
Journeys to the Ends of the Earth

Journeys to the Ends of the Earth

2001 3 Seasons 13 Episodes ⭐ 0.0 Documentary

Journeys to the Ends of the Earth is a 1999 television series commissioned by the Discovery Channel. Its two year production made it the most expensive adventure travel series ever commissioned in Australia. The series was co-produced by David Adams. It was nominated for Best Documentary Series by the Australian Logie Awards.

Journeys to the Ends of the Earth is a 1999 television series commissioned by the Discovery Channel. Its two year production made it the most expensive adventure travel series ever commissioned in Australia. The series was co-produced by David Adams. It was nominated for Best Documentary Series by the Australian Logie Awards.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The Lost Buddhas of Afghanistan (Afghanistan)

Afghanistan is not so much a country as a series of shifting borders. A place with no easily definable physical or civil

EP 2

The People of the Flame (Iran)

Iran is one of the earth’s final frontiers. It’s a country little visited by western travelers in recent years, yet

EP 3

The Road to Shangri-La (Pakistan)

Legend tells of a utopian kingdom hidden among the towering mountains of inner Asia. A paradise on Earth, yet a place ap

EP 4

The Forbidden Zone (Kamchatka)

In the far-flung reaches of Siberian Russia there’s a place unlike any other on earth. A place nine times zones from M

EP 1

The Lost City of Gold (Peru)

Inca (ing-kàh) ....... The two flinty syllables strike at the imagination like the sudden hard beat of an Andean drum.

EP 2

The Last Trail of Butch and Sundance (Bolivia)

David Adams re-lives the last days on the last trail of two American heroes, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, through

EP 3

The Lost World of the Khmer Rouge (Cambodia)

The Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia are how Asia used to be. A surviving pocket of intact wildlife & wilderness that’s

EP 4

In Search of Jason and the Argonauts (Georgia & Azerbaijan)

Nowhere else on Earth is the difference between the tranquillity & beauty of the physical world and the brutality & diso

EP 1

The Land of Fear (Tenere Desert, Niger)

Adams travels across the simmering heat of the Sahara with a Tuareg caravan, haggles for a pillar of salt and skis down

EP 2

The Ancient Chariots of Libya (Libya)

Libya is Africa’s last great unknown. A vast desert country veiled from the West by fear, prejudice and misunderstandi

EP 3

Keepers of the Lost Ark (Ethiopia)

David heads high into the Ethiopian Cush - a place known to the ancients as Punt, The Land Of Ghosts - in search of The

EP 4

Swahili Sinbads (Zanzibar & Kenya)

The battered dhow carves its passage though the tourmaline waters of the South Indian Ocean. Its patched lateen sail fat

EP 5

The Mystery of the African Pharaohs (Sudan)

Sudan is one of the world’s last frontiers. It’s a mineral treasure trove (unmined gold, uranium, oil) hobbled by a

Popular Cast

David Adams
David Adams
Self