Sahara
by Palin, Michael
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0297843036
- ISBN 13
- 9780297843030
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, United Kingdom, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 256 pages. Multiple copies available this title. This book is BRAND NEW. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: Michael Palin's personality is a combination of some very disparate elements, many of them displayed at their most attractive in Sahara. There's the friendly, avuncular manner; the easy-going charm that women find so attractive; and that vein of surrealistic, sardonic humour that is the legacy of his Monty Python days. All these characteristics combined to create the perfect host for the ambitious travel programmes with which he's latterly been associated. The shows (and the handsome companion books that invariably accompany them) avoid the sometimes over-serious approach of other presenters and show us some very exotic parts of the world filtered through Palin's very idiosyncratic vision. Audiences and readers can't get enough. Sahara gives us the latest of his epic voyages, and this one possibly represents the most arduous challenge of his career: across the massive and unforgiving Sahara desert. In this beautifully produced volume (studded with some eye-catching colour photographs), we are taken on a unique journey, as Palin reveals the Sahara to us as something considerably more than endless sand dunes. Facet by facet, Michael Palin uncovers a colourful and eccentric panoply of cultures, with chequered histories that stretch back to the dawn of time. Beginning (and ending) in Gibraltar, we are taken from the fabled realms of the ancient Egyptians to the Islamic republics of the present day, as Palin conjures up a journey that alternates between gallows humour and often considerable discomfort. Most of us will never experience the teeming nightlife of Dakar or travel down the river Niger to the fabled city of Timbuktu. But Palin has done it for us, and this book (with or without the accompanying TV series) is a highly enjoyable way to relive that journey with him. --Barry Forshaw Quantity Available: 3. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780297843030. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0001663. . 9780297843030
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0001663
- Title
- Sahara
- Author
- Palin, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0297843036
- ISBN 13
- 9780297843030
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- BZDB137 sahara, bbc, michael palin, television, EAN: 9780297843030 Palin, Michael Sahara
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