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Around the World in 80 Days (Radio Collection)
Around the World in 80 Days (Radio Collection)

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Author: Michael Palin
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Category: Book

List Price: £19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
Sales Rank: 204051

Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: New Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

ISBN: 0563494689
EAN: 9780563494683
ASIN: 0563494689

Publication Date: August 4, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours

Similar Items:

  • Pole To Pole With Michael Palin [1992]
  • Full Circle: A Pacific Journey with Michael Palin
  • Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Around the world in 455 minutes   October 18, 2003
 10 out of 10 found this review helpful

Around The World In 80 Days,
BBC Audiobooks
IT'S 15 years since loveable ex-Python Michael Palin set off from the Reform Club on the trail of Phileas Fogg.
The resulting television programme, Around The World In 80 Days, was a phenomenon and broke the perception of international travel being restricted to the package deal or the luxury cruise.
Palin and his ilk, such as Peters Mayle and McCarthy, took dream of doing the grand tour by roughing it to unfamiliar parts of the globe away from young students and old hippies to a wider audience.
The show also kept Palin in Air Miles by sparking four sequels, including Pole To Pole, where he goes from the North to the South by any means except aircraft, and Full Circle, in which he circumnavigates the Pacific anticlockwise, the other two are Sahara and Himalaya.
As with the best in travel writing, the joy is not in arriving at your destination so much as the getting there. The sights encountered on the road are extraordinary, all the more so through the filter of the affable narrator.
There's a Pythonesque desperation to the rider "Now with added music," but this does little to add to the appeal of this audio collection. The real appeal is that this is a classic of its genre and it will improve your travels whether they're by rickshaw, dog sled or armchair.




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