Pole to Pole by Michael Palin6/27/2023 Crew photographer Basil Pao illustrates with a profusion of seductive color shots. The narrative is witty and Palin's exuberance contagious. He recoups the keen sense of fun-and of trauma-during the days of this Grand Tour. Pole to pole with Michael Palin Available at Shatin Storage Book Collection (Shatin) (G492. This means Palin must abandon the 30 degrees east meridian. While the sheer mechanics of getting from one place to the next occupied most of the time, Palin vividly reports on the almost daily changes in panorama and the acutely experienced differences in climate, culture, politics, plumbing, lodgings, food and mores. London : BBC/Parkwest Publications, 1992. A travel adventure company is able to take Palin to the South Pole from their base in Chile. Through 17 countries they traveled by bus, train, barge, ship, bicycle, car, balloon and raft when prearranged transport failed them in the last leg of their journey, from South Africa to Antarctica, there was nothing for it but to take a plane. This is the record of Michael Palins continuous land and sea journey from the North to the South Pole following a given line of longitude, 30 degrees east. British actor-writer-TV producer Palin (a member of the Monty Python troupe) rose to the challenge in 1991, when he and a BBC-TV crew undertook a five-month trip along the 30 east line of longitude. The ultimate travel adventure of the jet age may be to journey from the North Pole to the South Pole by every means but airplane.
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