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ISBN: 0297843036

ISBN13: 9780297843030

Sahara

Name: &quot;Nowhere is Paradise&quot;
Item: Sahara
Rating: 5
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By Michael Palin

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Book Overview

Michael Palin's epic voyages have seen him circumnavigate the globe, travel from the North to the South Pole and circle the countries of the Pacific Ocean. This was perhaps the greatest challenge yet: to cross the vast and merciless Sahara desert. Shrugging aside the perils of camel stew and being run over by the Paris-Dakar rally, he travels through some of the most spectacular landscapes on earth. For the Sahara is no empty wasteland, but home to a diversity of cultures whose long history stretches from the time of the ancient Egyptians to the oil-rich Islamic republics of today. Book jacket. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0297843036

ISBN13:9780297843030

Release Date:September 2002

Publisher:Weidenfeld and Nicolsen

Length:256 Pages

Weight:2.55 lbs.

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Rated 5 stars
"Nowhere is Paradise"

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 21, 2006

Michael Palin, who did such a marvelous job with his Hemingway and Himalayan travel adventures in both TV and book forms, brings similar success to a less palatable subject: Sahara. This lovely book, filled with colorful and excellent photography, is Palin's very personal story of his 9 country/10,000 mile odyssey. He is a wonderful raconteur and guide. The Sahara, as beautiful and vibrant as it is dangerous and deadly...

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Rated 5 stars
A Very, Very Good Travel Book!!

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 20, 2006

I listened to this book on CD while I wallpapered my bathroom and it made the time go so fast! It is beautifully written and so easy to listen to. Palin is a master story teller and brings Africa to life with this book. Wonderful!!

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Rated 5 stars
Better than expected

By Thriftbooks.com User, May 11, 2005

I had low expectations on reading this book and was surprised that it turned out to be so good. The photos are excellent; Palin is amusing and informative. He is self effacing and likeable rather than being a movie star on tour. Palin and a film crew spent 99 days -- in several trips -- to travel nearly 10,000 miles in the Sahara. Their trip starts in Gibraltar and continues in a big circle through Morocco, Western Sahara,...

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Rated 5 stars
A sweeping tour of the countries of the Sahara

By Thriftbooks.com User, January 6, 2005

In 2001, Michael Palin travelled by camel, truck, boat, and train through Gibraltar, Morocco, the disputed territory of the Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia. Because his main purpose was to film a documentary, he typically was assigned a government "minder" in each country, although this did not stop Palin from writing about his candid impressions. For example, although he has enormous...

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Rated 5 stars
A few comments

By Thriftbooks.com User, January 3, 2005

I just had a few miscelleneous comments on this book. Not being familiar with Palin's previous travel adventures I had no expectations about this book, but I was pleasantly surprised. If it's possible to write a witty, funny, and entertaining travelogue about perhaps the most forbidding and unforgiving place on the planet, Palin does it here in this very well done book. Palin's descriptions of the Sahara are interesting,...

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