The best travel stories often chronicle trips no sane person would care to experience herself in Pole to Pole, Michael Palin has done the suffering for us, leaving readers to enjoy the humor, excitement, and joy of exotic climes from the comfort of our armchairs. These adventures and more are related in Palin's journal entries and illustrated by dozens of color and black-and-white photographs. Palin also rides in a hot air balloon, acquires a camel, consults a witch doctor, and plunges into the heart of a South African diamond mine, two kilometers beneath the surface of the earth. Along the way the company is faced with revolution, illness and injury, and not a few bumpy plane rides-occurrences they meet with the obligatory stiff upper lip. Accompanied once again by a dauntless film crew, Palin begins in the far, frozen wastes of the Arctic Circle, then passes through 17 countries, including Norway, the former USSR, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, and Chile, before standing at last at the South Pole. Contents 1 Book contents 2 Audio edition 3 Photograph book 4 References 5 External links Book contents edit The book follows each of his seven trips made for the BBC, consisting of both his text and of many photographs to illustrate the trip. First, he traveled Around the World in 80 Days while a BBC crew filmed his adventures in Pole to Pole, Palin once again straps on his old kit bag-this time to traverse the globe from north to south. Pole to Pole is a book written by Michael Palin to accompany his BBC television series Pole to Pole.
Actor Michael Palin has managed to keep busy since his days with the British comedy group Monty Python.
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