AuthorMichael Palin
NarratorMichael Palin
Duration5h 52m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Travel
Key StageA Level
PublisherBBC Audiobooks
VersionUnabridged
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. It is a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching 1800 miles from the borders of Afghanistan to south-west China. Penetrated but never conquered, it remains the world's most majestic natural barrier, a magnificent wilderness that shapes the history and politics of Asia to this day. Having previously risen to the challenge of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest mountains in the world were a natural target for Michael Palin. In a journey rarely, if ever, attempted before,in 6 months of hard travelling Palin takes on the full length of the Himalaya including the Khyber Pass, the hidden valleys of the Hindu Kush, ancient cities like Peshawar and Lahore, the mighty peaks of K2, Annapurna and Everest, the bleak and barren plateau of Tibet, the gorges of the Yangtze, the tribal lands of the Indo-Burmese border and the vast Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh. He also passes through political flashpoints including Pakistan's remote north-west frontier, terrorist-torn Kashmir and the mountains of Nagaland.
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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Author: Edith Wharton
Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Anna Fields
Duration 4h 53m
A classic of travel writing, In Morocco is Edith Wharton's remarkable account of her journey to that country during World War I. With her characteristic sense of adventure, Wharton set out to explore Morocco and its people, traveling by military jeep to Rabat, Moulay Idriss, Fez, and Marrakech, from the Atlantic coast to the high Atlas. Along the w...
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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: Simon Armitage
Author Simon Armitage
Narrator Simon Armitage
Duration 8h 45m
One summer, Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way - a challenging 256-mile route usually approached from south to north, with the sun, wind and rain at your back. However, he resolved to tackle it back to front, walking home towards the Yorkshire village where he was born, travelling as a 'modern troubadour', without a penny in his pockets...
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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 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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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: Raynor Winn
Author Raynor Winn
Narrator Anne Reid
Duration 11h 1m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, read by Anne Reid. Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, the couple lose their home and their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South Wes...
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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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