Full Circle - Michael Palin
Book type: 1997 hardcover with dustjacket 320pages
ISBN: 0563371218
Dimensions & Weight: 26 x 20 x 2.5cm 1.1kg
Used Very Good Condition: minor scuffs to dustjacket
Description: (from Wikipedia)
Full Circle is the book that Michael Palin wrote to accompany the BBC TV program Full Circle with Michael Palin. This book, like the other books that Michael Palin wrote following each of his seven trips for the BBC, consists both of his text and of many photographs to illustrate the trip. All of the pictures in this book were taken by Basil Pao, the stills photographer who was part of the team who did the trip. The book contains one chapter for each country/region visited, as follows: USA (Alaska), Russia (Siberia), Japan, South Korea, China (Shanghai to Vietnam), Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, USA (California), Canada (British Columbia), USA (Alaska). To some extent the book reads like a diary, as Michael Palin starts each section of the book with a heading like "Day 43 - Huis Ten Bosch". But in a departure from the previous two books there are occasional breaks where a day is not mentioned. This was the longest of all of Michael Palin's trips, covering 50,000 miles (80,000 km) through 17 countries in ten months. The diversity of the many countries and places is amazing. Arctic wilderness, tropics, deserts, cramped cities, huge rivers, high mountains, etc., etc. There are many high points along the way, the most exciting being when Michael Palin had to lasso a camel while standing in the back of a pickup truck that was going over bumps and around bends at break-neck speed.
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