Michael Palin reads the incredible story of his first round-the-world adventure
In the autumn of 1988 Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier.
The rules were simple. He had to make the journey in eighty days using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg. And so, complete with visas, running shoes, an inflatable globe and sound advice from Alan Whicker , Michael Palin began his incredible journey.
Crossing seventeen borders and meeting innumerable challenges, he saw Venice from the back of a rubbish barge, rode around the Pyramids on a camel called Michael, and was attacked by a cockatoo in Hong Kong - these amongst many other adventures.
Phileas Fogg may have brought a Princess back from his travels, but Michael Palin brought back a fascinating and frequently humorous account of the journey of a lifetime.
Written By : Michael Palin
Peformed By : Michael Palin
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 6 hours 5 minutes
Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Non Fiction
Price : $29.49
The actor and writer reads the account of his third and most ambitious world adventure: an anti-clockwise circumnavigation of the world’s largest ocean, the Pacific. View...
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Written By : Neil Postman and Steve Powers
Peformed By : Jeff Riggenbach
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 4 hours 30 minutes
Categories : TV Non Fiction
Price : $39.95 $12.95
Neil Postman, an author and academic, and Steve Powers, a television journalist, reveal the difference between what TV news says it is presenting and what it actually delivers, entertainment fodder versus genuine news. They explain why TV news has become a “cash cow,” pointing to the symbiotic... View...
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Written By : Michael Palin
Peformed By : Michael Palin
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 5 hours 40 minutes
Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Non Fiction
Price : $26.99
Three years after going Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin was off again. View...
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Written By : Neil Postman
Peformed By : Jeff Riggenbach
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 5 hours
Categories : TV Non Fiction
Price : $39.95 $14.95
In this eloquently persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs and how “entertainment values” have corrupted even the way we think. Postman believes that public discourse, the advancing of arguments... View...
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Written By : Michael Palin
Peformed By : Michael Palin
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 6 hours
Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Non Fiction
Price : $26.99
Michael Palin reads his own account of an epic journey across the Himalaya in his sixth international expedition. View...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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