For a Travel Channel show on the natural wonders of Jordan that he hosted, he flew his own helicopter, rode a camel in the desert and forged up a river to see a beautiful canyon.

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It is easier to dress soldiers in bright uniforms and have them march to the sound of a fife-and-drum corps than it is to have them ride six hundred miles through the desert on the back of a camel.

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Marines swelter in the desert heat in tents with dirt floors infested by camel spiders the size of a hand.

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Using a fleet of automobiles supported by a camel caravan, he would lead an expedition to the Gobi desert in an attempt to reconstruct the entire natural history of the Central Asian plateau.

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