Pole to Pole - Softcover
In the tie-in to the Spring PBS series, the British actor details his adventures around the world as he and his film crew travel logitudinally from North Pole to South Pole. Original. TV tie-in. 25,000 first printing. IP.
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Actor Michael Palin has managed to keep busy since his days with the British comedy group Monty Python. First, he traveled Around the World in 80 Days while a BBC crew filmed his adventures; in Pole to Pole, Palin once again straps on his old kit bag--this time to traverse the globe from north to south. Accompanied once again by a dauntless film crew, Palin begins in the far, frozen wastes of the Arctic Circle, then passes through 17 countries, including Norway, the former USSR, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, and Chile, before standing at last at the South Pole. Along the way the company is faced with revolution, illness and injury, and not a few bumpy plane rides--occurrences they meet with the obligatory stiff upper lip. Palin also rides in a hot air balloon, acquires a camel, consults a witch doctor, and plunges into the heart of a South African diamond mine, two kilometers beneath the surface of the earth.
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These adventures and more are related in Palin's journal entries and illustrated by dozens of color and black-and-white photographs. The best travel stories often chronicle trips no sane person would care to experience herself; in Pole to Pole, Michael Palin has done the suffering for us, leaving readers to enjoy the humor, excitement, and joy of exotic climes from the comfort of our armchairs.
Michael Palin established his reputation with Monty Python's Flying Circus and Ripping Yarns. His work also includes several films with Monty Python as well as The Missionary, A Private Function, an award-winning performance as Ken in A Fish Called Wanda, as well as Fierce Creatures. He has also written several books to accompany his very successful travel series.
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- PublisherBBC Books
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0563370653
- ISBN 13 9780563370659
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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Pole to Pole
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ISBN 10: 0563370653
ISBN 13: 9780563370659
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. First Paperback edition-first printing. Mint condition.BBC Books,1995.First Paperback edition-first printing,1995.Large format paperback(two small nicks on the edges of the cover) in mint condition.Illustrated with many colour,b/w photos,drawings,maps.The book is new with a small nick on the edge of the pages.320pp including Afterword. Seller Inventory # 1876
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