Full Circle : Travels Around the Pacific Rim

Hardcover. 320 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: BBC Books, London, 1997. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in fine condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In this account of the third of Michael Palin's travel adventures for BBC Television, he journeys for almost a year, covering 50,000 miles and all of the 18 countries that border the Pacific Ocean, encompassing a wide diversity of landscape, culture and people. The Pacific Rim is one of the world's most volatile areas, with economies that are expanding faster than anywhere else on earth - and here the earth itself is in a constant state of flux. Not for nothing is the Pacific coastline known as the "Ring of Fire" - volcanoes mark Palin's journey like stepping stones, and he climbs one which has recently erupted and is still smoking. He negotiates mountains and plunging gorges, crosses glaciers, dodges icebergs, follows great rivers such as the Yangtse and the Amazon, and confronts the notorious Cape Horn and the wild and windswept beaches of western Alaska. The people Palin meets include one of the few remaining survivors of a Siberian Gulag camp, head-hunters in Borneo, and Japanese monks. He eats maggots in Mexico, rustles camels in the Australian desert, lands a plane in Seattle, and sings with the Pacific Fleet choir in Vladivostock. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Travel & Places; ISBN: 0563371218. ISBN/EAN: 9780563371212. Inventory No: 08100363. Hardcover

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ISBN: 0563371218

ISBN-13: 9780563371212

Publisher: BBC Books

Year: 1997

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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