Book Review: Sahara (Michael Palin)

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Michael Palin

SAHARA

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Book review by Anthony Campbell. Copyright © Anthony
Campbell (2003).
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Probably best known as a comic actor in Monty Python and
numerous films, Michael Palin has also made a number of
televised journeys in various parts of the world. The most
recent of these, carried out intermittently between
February 2001 and February 2002, took him and his team
across the Sahara, covering nearly 10,000 miles and
visiting Gibraltar, Morocco, Algeria, Western Sahara,
Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Libya, and Tunisia.

Palin writes well, with the light touch one would expect;
he makes an agreeable travelling companion. He appears to
be able to get on well with all kinds of people met on the
way and fits in easily wherever he goes. The book is
composed of numerous short sections in diary form, each
devoted to a particular section of the journey, which makes
it ideal for dipping into, perhaps when one is travelling
oneself. The photographs are excellent.

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%T Sahara
%A Michael Palin
%I Phoenix
%C London
%D 2002
%G ISBN 0-75381-X
%P vii + 260 pp
%K travel
%O photographs by Basil Pao
%O paperback edition
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