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  • Michael Palin: Pole to Pole

  • By: Michael Palin
  • Narrated by: Michael Palin
  • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

In Pole to Pole we join Michael Palin on the second of his epic challenges. Travelling from the North Pole to the South Pole, he experiences every extreme the globe has to offer. As he crosses 16 countries by train, truck, raft, Ski-Doo, barge, balloon, and bicycle, he meets a diverse range of fascinating characters and landscapes while his own endurance is tested to the limit. With his customary aplomb, he plunges himself into the local cultures, starring in a crayfish documentary in Novgorod, attending a baby-rolling ceremony at a Cypriot wedding, and consulting an Mpulugu witch-doctor. He samples the local cuisines, from goat stew in Kigoma to seal lasagne in Tromsø, and the local customs, beating himself with birch twigs in a Finnish sauna and enjoying a mud massage in Odessa. His incredible journey is a delight for anyone interested in our weird, wonderful world.
©1999 Michael Palin (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Adventure Travel Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Polar Regions Travel Writing & Commentary Transportation Adventure
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Pleasant listening

Palin’s travelogues make for pleasant listening when you don’t want to have to concentrate on a plot or spy vs spy.
The trips are amazing and I wonder how he does it at his age.

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Not great

Just reads way too quickly and probably better as a TV series, just doesn’t work converted to a book

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