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Around The World In Eighty Days
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Around The World In Eighty Days

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This is an unabridged reading by Michael Palin of his book recounting the journey around the globe which he undertook for BBC Television. In the autumn of 1988 Palin set out from the Reform Club to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by the fictional Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. He had to make the journey in 80 days - accompanied by a BBC film crew - using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg. Their voyage took them from the opulence of the Orient Express to the stench of a Venetian refuse-collecting boat; from the lurching progress of an Egyptian camel called Michael to the heights of a hot-air balloon over Aspen, Colorado. Palin was attacked by a parrot in Hong Kong, given a close shave by an apparently blind Indian barber and accepted into the Brotherhood of Mariners by King Neptune himself.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Country
United Kingdom
Date
9 June 2022
Pages
240
ISBN
9781474625791

This is an unabridged reading by Michael Palin of his book recounting the journey around the globe which he undertook for BBC Television. In the autumn of 1988 Palin set out from the Reform Club to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by the fictional Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. He had to make the journey in 80 days - accompanied by a BBC film crew - using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg. Their voyage took them from the opulence of the Orient Express to the stench of a Venetian refuse-collecting boat; from the lurching progress of an Egyptian camel called Michael to the heights of a hot-air balloon over Aspen, Colorado. Palin was attacked by a parrot in Hong Kong, given a close shave by an apparently blind Indian barber and accepted into the Brotherhood of Mariners by King Neptune himself.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Country
United Kingdom
Date
9 June 2022
Pages
240
ISBN
9781474625791