- Description and travel, Himalaya mountains, description and travel, Travel, Journeys
Palin explores many countries of the Himalaya region which are little known to the West. This record of his journey contains the customary catalogue of disasters, crises, misunderstandings and colourful characters encountered on the way.
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Classical in form, contemporary, plot-driven and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Michael Palin
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 296
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Phoenix Press, Chivers Sound Library
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- heb, English
- ISBN
- 9781474625777
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