Status
Available
Call number
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Publication
Bay Books (1995), 324 pages
Description
Three years after going around the world in 80 days, Michael Palin was off again. Travelling from one end of the globe to the other, Palin and his team endured extremes of heat and cold as they crossed seventeen countries on trains, trucks, ships, rafts, ski-doos, buses, barges, bicycles and balloons. In this new recording, especially made for BBC Radio Collection, his vivid and humorous descriptions of their adventures will leave you wide-eyed with wonder and laughing out loud.
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LibraryThing member pouleroulante
"Raving queen to Intrepid One.....Micheal is on the Wall of Death....NOW!"
I have no objectivity....I love Micheal Palin!
I have no objectivity....I love Micheal Palin!
LibraryThing member trench_wench
I got the box set of Michael Palin's travel books for Christmas, and I'm slowly trying to work my way through them. I like Palin's anecdotal style, its kinda like listening to an aged relative rambling. The fact that this book came out in 1991 is quite interesting - so much in the world has changed
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since he travelled through it. For example, they travelled through Zimbabwe, something they wouldn't be able to do now. Good stuff to dip in and out of. Show Less
LibraryThing member birdsam0610
Pole to Pole is the last of Michael Palin’s travel books that I have to read. (I still need to track down a copy of Hemingway Adventures in the future, but I may watch the series first as I’m not really into Hemingway). Set in the early 1990s (just before the fall of the USSR), Palin and the
This takes them through Greenland, Finland, Estonia, the Ukraine (both part of the USSR at the time), Turkey, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa with an unexpected detour to Chile and finally, Antarctica. As always, the trip is not without its problems (digestive issues appear to occur quite often) and there are witch doctors, African animals and strange living quarters. I haven’t seen the series in its entirety but I think it would be interesting particularly from a retrospective point of view – there have been big changes in Europe (especially the Ukraine and Estonia) and Africa (eg. Zimbabwe) since this was made.
Once again, Palin can easily transport the reader to the time and place with interesting facts about the country as well as a great insight into the people.
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regular crew (including Basil and Clem) start at the North Pole with the aim of reaching the South Pole following the same longitude as closely as possible.This takes them through Greenland, Finland, Estonia, the Ukraine (both part of the USSR at the time), Turkey, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa with an unexpected detour to Chile and finally, Antarctica. As always, the trip is not without its problems (digestive issues appear to occur quite often) and there are witch doctors, African animals and strange living quarters. I haven’t seen the series in its entirety but I think it would be interesting particularly from a retrospective point of view – there have been big changes in Europe (especially the Ukraine and Estonia) and Africa (eg. Zimbabwe) since this was made.
Once again, Palin can easily transport the reader to the time and place with interesting facts about the country as well as a great insight into the people.
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Awards
British Book Award (Winner — 1993)
Physical description
324 p.; 7.5 inches
ISBN
0563493313 / 9780563493310
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