Full Circle

Accompanies The BBC TV Series

Autori

• Michael Palin

Parametri

• 320 pagine
• 12 ore di lettura

• Avventura
• Biografie e pensieri
• Mappe e viaggi
• Saggistica
• Turismo / Viaggi

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Michael Palin has certainly been busy since his days with Monty Python's Flying Circus. In Full Circle , Palin and a film crew go on a year-long adventure visiting 18 countries along the Pacific Rim. The film was eventually made into a 10-part PBS series, to which this book serves as a companion. Not for nothing is this part of the world called the "Ring of Fire"; volcanoes punctuate the landscape, and Palin even climbs one still smoking from a recent eruption. But the difficult landscape is only one challenge in this at times hair-raising, at times hilarious, always fascinating journey around the world's largest ocean. In the Philippines, Palin witnesses "psychic surgery": on the Urubamba River, Palin simultaneously clings for his life to a dugout canoe as he shoots the rapids and keeps up with England's progress in the World Cup via shortwave radio. Whether he's visiting a Gulag camp in Siberia or chowing down on maggots in Mexico, Palin meets the challenges of rough travel with grace, courage, and more than a little humor. Full Circle is fun to read, includes many color photographs from Palin's adventures, and makes a terrific addition to the armchair traveler's bookshelf.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1997

(In brossura)

Condizioni del libro: In buone condizioni

Prezzo: 7,49 €