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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.
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Full Circle, Michael Palin
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1997
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- Titre
- Full Circle
- Sous-titre
- Accompanies The BBC TV Series
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Michael Palin
- Éditeur
- BBC Books
- Publié
- 1997
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 0563493321
- ISBN13
- 9780563493327
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Cartes et voyages, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Voyage, Aventure, Humour, Autobiographies et mémoires, Carnets de voyage, Culture, Pourtour de l'océan Pacifique
- Évaluation
- 4 sur 5
- Description
- 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.