- Travel, Description and travel, Pictorial works, Sahara Description and travel
Michael Palin's epic voyages have seen him circumnavigate the globe, travel from the North to the South Pole and circle the countries of the Pacific Ocean, but this was perhaps the greatest challenge yet: to cross the vast and merciless Sahara desert.
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Classical in form, epic, contemporary and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Michael Palin
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780563528944
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“Only 300 miles from the Sahara Desert there is a place where brass bands play, warm beer is served and a blue lamp marks the police station.”
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