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Sahara (The Hungry Student) Hardcover – 26 Sept. 2002
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- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherW&N;
- Publication date26 Sept. 2002
- Dimensions19.8 x 2.7 x 27.4 cm
- ISBN-100297843036
- ISBN-13978-0297843030
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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
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- Publisher : W&N; 1st edition (26 Sept. 2002)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0297843036
- ISBN-13 : 978-0297843030
- Dimensions : 19.8 x 2.7 x 27.4 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 635,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 6,231 in Travel Writing (Books)
- 15,763 in Specialty Travel
- 90,468 in Home & Garden (Books)
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Michael Palin has written and starred in numerous TV programmes and films, from Monty Python and Ripping Yarns to The Missionary and The Death of Stalin. He has also made several much-acclaimed travel documentaries, his journeys taking him to the North and South Poles, the Sahara Desert, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe and Brazil. His books include accounts of his journeys, novels (Hemingway’s Chair and The Truth) and several volumes of diaries. From 2009 to 2012 he was president of the Royal Geographical Society. He received a BAFTA fellowship in 2013, and a knighthood in the 2019 New Year Honours list. He lives in London.
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My favourite part of the book is the journey to and from Timbuktu, the visit to Jenne and the trip down the river Niger and then traversing the vast desert in a camel train. It is quite extraordinary,
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Seriously, someone needs to find a way to get Michael Palin and David Attenborough to breed. That is probably about the only way anyone is going to come up with a better documentary.