Author: Michael Palin
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Travel, Non Fiction
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9780563521976
9780753823255
056352197X |
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Michael Palin has certainly been busy since his days with Monty Python's Flying Circus. In
, 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
keeps up with England's progress in the World Cup via shortwave radio.
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