These adventures and more are related in Palin's journal entries and illustrated by dozens of color and black-and-white photographs. Palin also rides in a hot air balloon, acquires a camel, consults a witch doctor, and plunges into the heart of a South African diamond mine, two kilometers beneath the surface of the earth. Along the way the company is faced with revolution, illness and injury, and not a few bumpy plane rides-occurrences they meet with the obligatory stiff upper lip. Accompanied once again by a dauntless film crew, Palin begins in the far, frozen wastes of the Arctic Circle, then passes through 17 countries, including Norway, the former USSR, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, and Chile, before standing at last at the South Pole. First, he traveled Around the World in 80 Days while a BBC crew filmed his adventures in Pole to Pole, Palin once again straps on his old kit bag-this time to traverse the globe from north to south. Actor Michael Palin has managed to keep busy since his days with the British comedy group Monty Python.
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