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Sahara written by Michael Palin performed by Michael Palin on Audio CD (Abridged)

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Michael Palin is off again, this time to the seemingly desolate Sahara Desert. There's no easy way across, as he and his team discover on their most challenging expedition yet. From a starting point in Gibralter, Michael makes his way to Morocco, then over the Atlas Mountains to the little-known countries of Mauritania, Mali, and Chad. He travels on the longest train in the world, meets with the Paris-Dakar Rally in...

New Europe written by Michael Palin performed by Michael Palin on CD (Abridged)

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ISBN:  9781846071997
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Travel
Duration:  450 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Michael Palin
Performer 1:  Michael Palin

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Michael Palin reads his own account of a journey into a new Europe. Michael Palin's 'New Europe' starts with a simple idea: that only a couple of hours from home is a half of Europe that is for him as unknown and unexplored as the plateau of Tibet or the vastness of the Sahara. Cut off for most of his life by Cold...

Wars and Iron Curtains, Europe's eastern lands are now open for business - and Michael sets off to discover them.

Visiting twenty countries, more than in his Himalaya and Sahara journeys combined, he encounters painful memories and exuberant celebrations.

Throwing himself into local life with his usual reckless curiosity, he samples pig fat with a brandy chaser, meets Romanian lumberjacks, drives the 8.58 stopping train from Poznan to Wolsztyn, learns about mine-clearing in Bosnia, treads the catwalk at a Budapest fashion show and watches Turkish gents wrestling in olive oil.

It's New Europe, but vintage Palin.

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