Sahara (Michael Palin)

Sahara (Michael Palin)

infobox Book |
name = Sahara
title_orig =
translator =


image_caption = Hardcover first edition, 2002, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
author = Michael Palin
cover_artist =
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = [http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/ Michael Palin's Trips]
genre = Travel literature
publisher = Weidenfeld & Nicolson Weidenfeld & Nicolson
release_date = 2002
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 288
isbn = 0-297-84303-6
preceded_by = Hemingway Adventure
followed_by = Himalaya

"Sahara" is the book that Michael Palin wrote to accompany the BBC television documentary series "Sahara with Michael Palin".

This book, like the other books that Palin wrote following each of his seven trips for the BBC, consists both of his text and of many photographs to illustrate the trip. All of the pictures in this book were taken by Basil Pao, the stills photographer who was part of the team who did the trip (Basil Pao also produced a book, "Inside Sahara", containing many more of his pictures).

This trip involved traveling all around and through the Sahara Desert, starting and ending at Gibraltar. The book contains 13 chapters: "Gibraltar", "Morocco", "Algeria", "Western Sahara", "Mauritania", "Senegal", "Mali", "Niger", "Algeria", "Libya", "Tunisia", "Algeria", and "Gibraltar". The reason Algeria is featured three times is that the trip first cut through part of western Algeria, then later up through south, central and eastern Algeria, and finally on the return trip followed the Mediterranean coast of northern Algeria. Some of these countries are huge; for example, Algeria is four times the size of France or three times the size of Texas. The Sahara Desert is roughly the same size as the United States, and the trip covered 10,000 miles (16,000 km.) and took three months.

To book is presented in a diary format; Palin starts each section of the book with a heading like "Day Forty-Two: Djenne". However, not all days are mentioned, a result of this trip being broken up into shorter trips, a fact that is not mentioned in the TV programme.

Audio edition

This book was released as an audio book, read by Palin himself, allowing the listener to hear his wit and charm, and his ability to do accents. Two versions of the audio book exist, an abridged version that lasts 6 hours and a difficult-to-find unabridged version that lasts 9 hours 52 minutes.

External links

* [http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/static-128 Full text of "Sahara"] at Palin's Travels


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Sahara with Michael Palin — Infobox Television bgcolour = #D6B97A show name = Sahara with Michael Palin caption = DVD cover format = Travel camera = picture format = HDTV audio format = runtime = 50 min creator = developer = executive producer = starring = Michael Palin… …   Wikipedia

  • Michael Palin — Palin in Trento, Italy in 2005 Born Michael Edward Palin 5 May 1943 (1943 05 05) (age 68) Broomhill, S …   Wikipedia

  • Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure — DVD cover Format Travel Starring Micha …   Wikipedia

  • Michael Palin's New Europe — Format Travel Starring Michael Palin Country of origin UK No. of episodes 7 …   Wikipedia

  • Michael Palin — (2005) Michael Edward Palin CBE FRGS (* 5. Mai 1943 in Sheffield, England) ist ein englischer Schauspieler, Sänger, Reisejournalist und Präsident der Royal Geographical Society. Er war Mitglied der Monty Python Gruppe, wo er …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days — Around the World in 80 Days Titlescreen of the series, featuring postcard style markings. Format Travel Starring …   Wikipedia

  • Himalaya with Michael Palin — Infobox Television bgcolour = #D6B97A show name = Himalaya with Michael Palin caption = DVD cover format = Travel camera = picture format = audio format = runtime = 50 min creator = developer = executive producer = starring = Michael Palin… …   Wikipedia

  • Sahara (disambiguation) — Sahara may refer to: *The Sahara desert *Western Sahara, a territory in northwest Africa *Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada *Sahara Tahoe, a resort casino in South Lake Tahoe now the Lake Tahoe Horizon Casino *Sahara India Pariwar, an… …   Wikipedia

  • List of countries and territories Michael Palin has travelled to — Listed are all the nations and territories that Michael Palin has travelled to in his journeys as of 2007: , Pole to Pole , Full Circle , Hemingway Adventure , Sahara , Himalaya , and New Europe . The names of the nations listed are what they… …   Wikipedia

  • Michael Edward Palin — Michael Palin Michael Edward Palin CBE (* 5. Mai 1943 in Sheffield, England) ist ein britischer Schauspieler und Sänger. Er war Mitglied der Monty Python Gruppe, wo er oft Rollen übernahm, die nach übertriebenem Enthusiasmus oder… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”