MICHAEL PALIN

POLE TO POLE

Hi and wlecome to our auction for this fantastic book that accompanies the major tv series - POLE TO POLE with Michael Palin.

If you thought there would never be another journey like Around the World in 80 Days you and Michael Palin's family have a lot in common. However, less than three years after being shut out of the Reform Club, Palin was offered a journey that would be longer, harder, and more dangerous. He was immediately hooked. The result is Pole to Pole, the second of Michael Palin's Great Twentieth-Century Adventures. Setting out to travel from one end of the earth to the other, following the 30 degree east line of longtitude, Palin and his team, using aircraft only as a last resort, endured extremes of heat and cold, as they crossed 17 countries on trains, trucks, ships, rafts, ski-doos, buses, barges, bicycles and balloons.

     Arriving in Ethiopia at the end of a 30-year civil war, Zambia on the day of Kenneth Kaunda's downfall and witnessing the end of apartheid in South Africa and communism in the USSR, they saw history in the making and made history as well.

     Palin became the first British television presenter to throw himself, literally, into a Russian kissing dance in Novgorod, a mud bath in Odessa, white-water rapids on the Zambesi and a squash game at 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Khartoum. He became the first, but surely not the last, Sheffield Wednesday supporter to consult a witch doctor, the only member of the Monty Python team to try and buy a camel, the first person in his street to pan, successfully, for gold, and the only man with a cat called Albert to have stood on both poles.

     Lavishly illustrated with photographs by Basil Pao - Michael's friend and fellow - traveller on Around the World in 80 Days - Pole to Pole is Michael Palin's own record of the pain and pleasure of an extraordinary journey. If you have an insatiable love of travel, an overdeveloped sense of humour or just enjoy reading about someone else's misfortunes, then this is the book for you.

Please note the following:

This book has been looked after as much as possible but does have the usual very slight damage to the outer cover edges where it has been stored on a bookshelf to try and maitain its quality.

Thank you for looking at this auction. Good Luck and Happy Bidding..!!