National Geographic explorer Paul Salopek retraces the footsteps of the first humans to cross the Arabian Peninsula. He tells host Carolyn Beeler about the extreme contrasts between city and desert, bedouin tradition and modernization in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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