AuthorMichael Palin
NarratorMichael Palin
Duration6h
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Travel
PublisherBBC
VersionAbridged
In this account of Michael Palin's travel adventure for the BBC, he journeys for almost a year, covering 50,000 miles and all of the 18 countries that border the Pacific Ocean, encompassing a wide diversity of landscape, culture and people. The Pacific Rim is one of the world's most volatile areas, with economies that are expanding faster than anywhere else on earth - and where the earth itself is in a constant state of flux.
Author: Bruce Henderson
Author Bruce Henderson
Narrator John Pruden
Duration 9h 9m
Bruce Henderson brings to life one of the most mysterious tragedies of American exploration in Fatal North.
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Author: Simon Reeve
Author Simon Reeve
Narrator Simon Reeve
Duration 10h 29m
TV documentary maker Simon Reeve has dodged bullets on frontlines, hunted with the Bushmen of the Kalahari, dived with manta rays, seals and sharks, survived malaria, walked through minefields, tracked lions on foot, been taught to fish by the President of Moldova, and detained for spying by the KGB. After a decade spent making more than 80 program...
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Around the World In Eighty Days
Author: Michael Palin
Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 7h 37m
In the autumn of 1988 Michael Palin set out to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. He had to make the journey in 80 days - accompanied by a BBC film crew - using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg. Their voyage took them from the opulence of the Orient Express to the ste...
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Author: Michael Palin
Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 10h 15m
Join the intrepid Michael Palin as he embarks on a comic race against time, travelling from the North Pole to the South Pole. As he crosses 16 countries by train, truck, raft, Ski-Doo, barge, balloon and bicycle, he experiences a fascinating range of characters and landscapes whilst his own endurance is tested to the limit.
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Author: Michael Williams
Author Michael Williams
Narrator Michael Tudor Barnes
Duration 7h 33m
This beautifully-packaged book will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages, condemned by broken timetables. On the Slow Train will reconnect with that long-missed need to lift our heads from the daily grind and r...
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Author: Michael Palin
Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 6h
Michael Palin is off to the Sahara Desert. From a starting point in Gibralter, he makes his way to Morocco, then over the Atlas Mountains to the little-known countries of Mauritiana, Mali and Chad. He journies on the longest train in the world and travels with nomadic herders, finally returning to the classical remains of Tunisia - where the Monty...
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Author: Sue Perkins
Author Sue Perkins
Narrator Sue Perkins
Duration 10h 24m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of East of Croydon written and read by Sue Perkins. A few years ago I was asked if I'd like to make a documentary on the Mekong River, travelling from the vast delta in Vietnam to the remote and snowy peaks of Tibet. Up until that point, the farthest East I'd been was Torremolinos, in the Costa Del Sol. Here's...
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Author: Michael Palin
Author Michael Palin
Narrator The Author
Duration 27h 28m
A new millennium, and a new chapter for Michael Palin unfolds. With a Hemingway travel project testing his confidence, doubts creeping in about his abilities as a writer, the death of his great friend George Harrison and the last of his children leaving home, the dawn of the twenty-first century sees Michael at his most reflective yet. Amidst this...
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Author: Michael Palin
Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 5h 52m
Winner of a Silver Award for best Non-Fiction at the Spoken Word Awards 2005 Michael Palin reads his own entertainingly written account of his journey accross the countries of the Himalayas, accompanying a major BBC TV series in 2004. In his most challenging journey to date, Palin tackles the Himalayas, the greatest mountain range on earth. I...
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Author: Michael Palin
Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 11h 32m
Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its rich history and exquisite sights, and talking to its diverse peoples, Palin fills what has been a void in his own experience and that of very many others. This au...
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