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Only 300 miles from the Sahara Desert there is a place where brass bands play, warm beer is served and a blue lamp marks the police station. Read the first page
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94 of 98 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
While I was skeptical of Palin's last effort (Palin's Hemingway Adventure), this book proves not only a delight, but also reflects an unexpected maturity in his writing.
Gone are the quick quips of the early volumes -- welcome as they were then, they would seem like worn-out comedy sketches if he still used them today.
Instead, he's grown into a reflective travel writer of some note, who deserves to be on the best-seller list not only because of the TV tie-in, but on the merits of this book alone.
As a Yank, I won't see the series for a year or more, but after reading his good work here, I can hardly wait.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Palin is the master of travelling to wonderful places that even the most ardent backpacker will never reach and yet he manages once again to bring life into the most inhospitable of locations. Whether it’s eating camel with displaced people, watching the Dakar Rally from a sand dune or sharing a meal with a national poet, Michael Palin writes and narrates in a fashion that allows you to drift into complete absorption and feel like you’re right there with him. Don’t be surprised if you find sand in your socks.
Sahara is his latest expedition into the unknown and builds strongly on previous voyages around the Pacific Rim, from North to South Pole and the original grand journey, Around the World in Eighty Days. Best experienced as a follow up to the TV series of the same name, the book allows the reader to relive the places seen in more depth than TV permits and the opportunity to savour some fantastic photography. At Amazon’s reduced price, this book is well worth a buy.
Read it in long absorbed sessions, or read it in short chunks, but read it. Palin takes you to the back of the back of beyond. Far away from the world of the normal travel writer and right into the homes and lives of the people he meets. Whether they’re living in shacks make from old oil drums hammered flat, or sharing a library with a cockerel, all of the characters that he meets are real and full of life. Share their lives. Read Sahara.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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The best of Michael Palin's travelogues by far. "Sahara" takes Palin and his filming crew though countries, districts and towns that feature little in popular travel writing. His explanation of, for example, the isuues and people of Western Sahara is very well done indeed.
Safaran Africa is most often featured in print and on television because of its negative aspects, for example poverty and conflict. Indeed these feature widely in the book but the overwhelming impression left is of amazingly the diverse and complex culture of the area.
Aside from Palin's excellent writing, this book could stand on the quality of its photography alone. It eclipses many "coffee table" art books.
My best Christmas present of 2002!
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A brilliant compamnion book
Do as I did and purchase this book to complete your set of Michael Palin's travel tales. A sumptious book with gorgeous pictures and engaging text. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mary
Sahara
This time Michael Palin is taking on the Sahara. I am a huge fan of the TV series but as in some of the other books I had read the book gives us a different slant from what we see... Read more
Published 17 months ago by M. G. Tokyo
St Michaels Boxed Selection
I love Michael Palin.I'd hate to meet him, I feel like a mate and I most probably wouldn't be.I am though his companion and confidant if only through his writing and TV series. Read more
Published 18 months ago by D. Hodson
Doesn't even manage to be superficial
I have to say I dislike Palin - part of Monty Python, and therefore recipient of public money at a time when the BBC was a quarter of a monopoly of British TV. Priceless publicity. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Rerevisionist
sahara
yet another great book from mr palin.a really good read,on par with his other books pole to pole,himalayas,full circle and round the world in 80 days. Read more
Published on 19 Oct 2009 by road nomad
A Bit Disappointing
Sahara by and large is a good but it dose get very repetitive. Palin in one of the best descriptive writes i know and you get a good fell for the country's. Read more
Published on 10 May 2008 by C. E. Cox
Sahara
This is another brilliant account of a Palin journey. It has the usual beautifully reproduced photography and is written with Palin's wonderful sense of description and humour,... Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2007 by Spider Monkey
A good book about a not-so-good trip
All of the travelogues made with Michael Palin for BBC TV resulted in a book being published as an alternative account of the trip. Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2006 by Rennie Petersen
sahara
this man amazes me every time,this book is wonderful reading,it delves into the minds and cultures of many many people whom were befriended along this fascinating journey across... Read more
Published on 18 Oct 2003
A must-have coffee table book
I picked up this book after having watched the accompanying BBC series, so I wondered if there was anything left to know about Palin's epic journey across North Africa in 2002. Read more
Published on 18 July 2003 by Kristine Kochanski
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