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In the Americas with David Yetman, the new HDTV series by multiple Emmy Award-winning producer & director Dan Duncan and internationally renown writer, host, & producer David Yetman, takes a fresh look at the lands that make up much of the Western Hemisphere. Each country contains landscapes, peoples, and history that have not received the attention they deserve on the world stage. In the Americas with David Yetman undertakes a new approach to travel and adventure.

 

304 – Sierra Nevada and the Making of California

304 – Sierra Nevada and the Making of California

The mighty Sierra Nevada is our most important mountain range. It influences much of California’s weather and produces most if its water. It was once the greatest barrier to transcontinental transportation and communication. It is a symbol of earthquakes, which created it. Tectonic geologist Eldridge Moores helps host David Yetman...
305 – Brazil’s Land of Sand

305 – Brazil’s Land of Sand

Long stretches of Brazil’s northeast coast are lined with sand dunes, some of them the size of small mountains, some of them so vast that they create their own climate. Their color, shape, and composition and their relationship with wind provide a striking variety of landscapes, each with its own...
306 – Lake Superior: Circling the Sweet Water Ocean

306 – Lake Superior: Circling the Sweet Water Ocean

It’s the largest lake in the world, a body of fresh water so vast it creates its own climate and supports thousands of residents along its shores. Lake Superior straddles the U.S.-Canadian border, the two nations separated on the east side by a busy portage canal. The lake’s icy waters...
307 – Nicaragua- Land of the Shaking Earth Emerges

307 – Nicaragua- Land of the Shaking Earth Emerges

For two hundred years Nicaragua suffered from the double insult of shaking earth—earthquakes and volcanic eruptions—and military and political interventions from the north. Today a democratic Nicaragua is promoting its diversity of cultures, its Spanish colonial heritage, and its natural wonders. Misquito Indians from the Caribbean coast and descendants of...
308 – Pernambuco: Brazil’s Other Carnival

308 – Pernambuco: Brazil’s Other Carnival

The Brazilian state of Pernambuco, about the size of Maine, is home to the megapolis of Recife, Brazil’s fifth largest city and home to more than 5 million Pernambucans. Recife’s carnival, along with celebrations in its colonial suburb Olinda and the in the cities of Bezerros and Nazarene da Mata,...
309 – Cuetzalan: The Celebration of San Francisco

309 – Cuetzalan: The Celebration of San Francisco

Five hundred years ago Franciscan priests journeyed to the remote city of Cuetzalan in Puebla State. The region was fertile for evangelizing, an urban area of Aztecs and Totonacans who supported a vibrant culture. Although less remote now, the traditions and languages continue in a town that venerates its fiestas...
310 – Alaska: The Wilderness of the Volcanoes

310 – Alaska: The Wilderness of the Volcanoes

Two of Alaska’s vast national parks, Lake Clark and Katmai, have endured a heritage of volcanic explosions. Lake Clark is a wilderness of endless forests, lakes, marshes, glaciers, and recently active volcanoes, while nearby Katmai, born of one of history’s most violent explosions, shows the aftermath of a cataclysmic eruption...
501 – A Gaucho Gathering in Uruguay

501 – A Gaucho Gathering in Uruguay

Each year several thousand gauchos–Uruguayan cowboys–gather in the interior town of Tacuarembó for a festival and parade. We travel to a ranch deep in the interior and follow the gaucho life and their preparations for the parade.
502 – Trinidad and Tobago: Where East Meets West

502 – Trinidad and Tobago: Where East Meets West

The island of Trinidad and its small companion, Tobago, form the most ethnically diverse nation in the Caribbean and are home to an extraordinary variety of wildlife species. We sample Trinidadan food with its strong East Indian roots, and are reminded of African traditions as we watch stilt walkers practicing...
503 – Mexico City’s Markets: a Millennium of Trade

503 – Mexico City’s Markets: a Millennium of Trade

The ancient Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán was home to several great markets. As we travel through Mexico City, which sits on the foundations of the ancient Aztec home, we make a night stop in the historic flower market, brave our way through the controversial market of witches, and contemplate a...
504 – Brazil’s Pernambuco: The Forgotten Interior

504 – Brazil’s Pernambuco: The Forgotten Interior

504 – Unlike much of Brazil, the interior of the northeastern state of Pernambuco is an arid semi-desert. Away from the great Río San Francisco, the countryside is called the sertão, an often drought-stricken scrubland. The inhabitants have fashioned their own culture and history, and still commemorate their fabled bandit-hero,...
505 – The Mata Atlantica: Brazil’s Other Rainforest

505 – The Mata Atlantica: Brazil’s Other Rainforest

One of the world’s most diverse forests, the Mata Atlantica once covered Brazil’s southeastern coast for over a thousand miles and still blankets the steep hills of Río de Janeiro. Now less than ten percent remains, much of it in protected parks. Within the Mata, runaway slaves established their villages,...

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