Michael Palin  (автор)

Мека корица, среден формат  |  260 стр. + 64 стр. цветно приложение |  353 гр.

(внимателно използвана книга в почти отлично състояние - леко захабен външен вид)

*

На задната корица:

'Brisk, fresh ... makes you want to go where he has gone, if not necessarily to eat camel liver'

Daily Telegraph

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.

'A good-humoured romp through the greatest desert on earth'

Spectator

A classic for the armchair traveller . . . one is left full of admiration for the good-natured patience of our genial guide'

Ireland on Sunday

**

About the Authors

Michael Palin established his reputation with Monty Python's Flying Circus and Ripping Yarns. His work also includes several films with Monty Python, as well as The Missionary, A Private Function, an award-winning performance as the hapless Ken in A Fish Called Wanda and, more recently, American Friends and Fierce Creatures. His television credits include two films for the BBC's Great Railway Journeys, the plays East of Ipswich and Number 27, and Alan Bleasdale's GBH. He has written books to accompany his four very successful travel series, Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle and Hemingway Adven­ture, and is also the author of a number of children's stories, the play The Weekend and the novel Hemingway's Chair. Visit his website at www.palinstravels.co.uk.

Basil Pao began his photographic career in 1980 on his return to Hong Kong after ten years in the United States, where he was an art director for recording companies Atlantic and Polygram in New York, and Warner Music in Los Angeles. His work during that time included the book for the Monty Python film Life of Brian, where he first worked with Michael Palin. They have since collaborated on five books based on the travel series Pole to Pole, Full Circle and Hemingway Adventure. His travel essays and other works, including photographs for Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor and Little Buddha, have appeared in publications all over the world.