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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