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Product Description ------------------- The complete story of Michael Palin's circumnavigation of the world in under eighty days with air travel totally forbidden. From .co.uk ----------- In 1989 Michael Palin recreated the famous voyage made in 1873 by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's epic Around the World in 80 Days. This 10-part (eight-hour) BBC documentary featured Palin and his passepartout using only the modes of transport available to the novelist's intrepid traveller. Hiring Palin was the masterstroke that ensured the series became a television milestone; despite being one of the comedy-surrealists of Monty Python's Flying Circus and the perpetrator of Ripping Yarns ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005LDFS/${0} ), he proved to be the most amiable travelling companion imaginable. His charm and ingenuity, coupled with the race-against-time format and the rtunity to visit at second-hand places most of us will never see, made Around the World in 80 Days an unmissable television event. So much so that Palin soon returned to the travel format in Pole to Pole (1992), Full Circle (1997) and Sahara ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000071IYP/${0} ) (2002). --Gary S Dalkin P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); From the Back Cover ------------------- "Not until dawn on the day of departure did a full-blown, gut-tightening panic set in. I had volunteered to deliver these documentaries, (having only done one in my life before) against the clock, with absolutely no script at all, on a route that might change without warning. Nothing like it had been attempted before." – Michael Palin. A Venetian refuse barge, a battered taxi in Egypt, a primitive boat across the Persian Gulf, a Chinese steam engine and a container ship across the Date Line … Michael Palin’s attempt to circumnavigate the world heralds a phenomenal journey of dhows, diarrhea, hungry parrots and a world full of surprises. See more ( javascript:void(0) )