Michael Palin Sahara Book for Sale

Michael Palin Sahara Book for Sale

Michael Palin's travel books have repeatedly topped the bestseller lists. In this book he is back at his adventurous best tie-ing in with a major BBC TV series

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. This was perhaps the greatest challenge yet: to cross the vast and merciless Sahara desert.

Shrugging aside the perils of camel stew and being run over by the Paris-Dakar rally, he travels through some of the most spectacular landscapes on earth. For the Sahara is no empty wasteland, but home to a diversity of cultures whose long history stretches from the time of the ancient Egyptians to the oil-rich Islamic republics of today.

The filming of Sahara took 4 months covering 10,000 miles. Only 15% of Sahara is sand (Sahara means desert). Palin starts his journey in Gibraltar, crosses the strait to Morocco and passes through Fez and Marrakesh, before traversing the mighty Atlas Mountains. In the stony hostile wastes of Western Algeria, he spends time in one of the refugee camps of the Saharawis, a population in exile. Recovering from an overdose of camel stew, he heads south to Mauritania, where he rides the longest train in the World, finds the holy city half engulfed in sand and gets nearly run-over by the Paris-Dakar Rally. Arriving in Dakar a few days behind them, he samples the city's exhausting night life, then takes a train to the heart of Mali, home of great music, the largest mud building in the World and the great river Niger, on which Palin rides to the legendary city of Timbuktu. He walks with nomadic herders and rides with a Touareg camel caravan through Niger, scales the Hoggar Mountains and flies into the oilfields of Algeria, before investigating Colonel Gaddafi's Libya and stunning classical remains of Tunisia.
Sahara reveals not the emptiness of endless sand dunes, but a huge and diverse range of cultures and landscapes and a long history of civilisation, trade, commerce and conquest stretching from the time of the ancient Egyptians to the oil-rich Islamic Republics of today. By now Palin had crossed 9 countries.

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