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New Europe

Cut off for most of his life by Cold Wars and Iron Curtains, Europe's eastern lands are now open for business, and Michael Palin sets off to discover them. Visiting twenty countries he meets Romanian lumberjacks, learns about mine-clearing in Bosnia, treads the catwalk at a Budapest fashion show, and watches Turkish gents wrestle in olive oil.

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  • "Michael Palin New Europe"@en

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  • "Cut off for most of his life by Cold Wars and Iron Curtains, Europe's eastern lands are now open for business, and Michael Palin sets off to discover them. Visiting twenty countries he meets Romanian lumberjacks, learns about mine-clearing in Bosnia, treads the catwalk at a Budapest fashion show, and watches Turkish gents wrestle in olive oil."@en
  • "In his latest voyage of discovery Michael Palin reads his own account of a journey into a new Europe. Michael Palin's New Europe starts with a simple idea ..."@en
  • "By road, rail, river, sailboat and donkey through some of Eastern Europe's most mouth-watering locations, from Albania in the south to Latvia in the north, Michael Palin meets new Europe's movers and shakers. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing its rich history, filming its exquisite sights and talking to its diverse peoples, Michael fills what has been a void in his own experience and that of very many of his own generation."
  • "PLAYAWAY. This book starts with a simple idea: that only a couple of hours from home is half of Europe that is for Michael Palin as unknown and unexplored as the plateau of Tibet or the vastnesses of the Sahara. Cut off for most of his life by Cold Wars and Iron Curtains, Europe's eastern lands are now open for business - and Michael sets off to discover them. Visiting twenty countries, he meets Romanian lumberjacks, learns about mine-clearing in Bosnia, treads the catwalk at a Budapest fashion show and watches Turkish gents wrestling in olive oil - container."
  • "Until the early 1990s, travelling behind the Iron Curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, Michael Palin fills what has been a void in his own experience and that of very many of his own generation."
  • "Palin's New Europe takes the form of a journey through countries which have rich and complex cultures. Few have survived intact, as the ebb and flow of warring armies has continually changed the map of Europe. Starting in the mountains of Slovenia he travels down through Croatia and the former Yugoslavia to Albania before turning northwards to embrace Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, The Ukraine, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former East Germany, Poland, the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, opening up a new and undiscovered world to millions of viewers and readers."@en
  • ""Michael Palin's New Europe starts with a simple idea: that only a couple of hours from home is a half of Europe that is for him as unknown and unexplored as the plateau of Tibet or the vastness of the Sahara. Cut off for most of his life by Cold Wars and Iron Curtains, Europe's eastern lands are now open for business-- and Michael sets off to discover them."--Container."@en
  • "Michael Palin reads his own account of a journey into a new Europe. Michael Palin's 'New Europe' starts with a simple idea: that only a couple of hours from home is a half of Europe that is for him as unknown and unexplored as the plateau of Tibet..."
  • "Palin's New Europe takes the form of a journey through countries which have rich and complex cultures. Few have survived intact, as the ebb and flow of warring armies has continually changed the map of Europe. Starting in the mountains of Slovenia he travels down through Croatia and the former Yugoslavia to Albania before turning northwards to embrace Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, The Ukraine, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former East Germany, Poland, the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, opening up a new and undiscovered world to millions of viewers and readers. 2007."@en
  • "Michael Palin explores twenty countries which had been closed off for most of his life by Iron Curtains and Cold Wars."@en
  • "Michael Palin explores twenty countries which had been closed off for most of his life by Iron Curtains and Cold Wars."
  • "In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing its rich history, filming its exquisite sights and talking to its diverse peoples, Michael fills what has been a void in his own experience and that of very many of his own generation."@en

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  • "Audiobooks"@en
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  • "rejsebeskrivelser"
  • "Pictorial works"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"

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  • "New Europe [sound recording (CD)]"
  • "New Europe"@en
  • "New Europe"

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