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Himalaya

In his most challenging journey to date, the redoubtable Michael Palin tackles the greatest mountain range on earth. It is a wall of rock stretching 1800 miles from the borders of Afghanistan to South-West China. Penetrated but never conquered, it remains the world's most majestic natural barrier, a magnificent wilderness that shapes the history and politics of Asia to this day. Having previously risen to the challenges of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest mountains in the world were a natural target for Michael Palin.

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  • "The actor and author presents a detailed exploration of the entire length of the Himalaya Mountains that celebrates the culture, landscape, and tradition of each of the seven countries that contain a portion of the mountain range."
  • "In his most challenging journey to date, the redoubtable Michael Palin tackles the greatest mountain range on earth. It is a wall of rock stretching 1800 miles from the borders of Afghanistan to South-West China. Penetrated but never conquered, it remains the world's most majestic natural barrier, a magnificent wilderness that shapes the history and politics of Asia to this day. Having previously risen to the challenges of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest mountains in the world were a natural target for Michael Palin."@en
  • "Reisverslag van de bekende acteur en programmamaker."
  • "Palin explores many countries of the Himalaya region which are little known to the West. This record of his journey contains the customary catalogue of disasters, crises, misunderstandings and colourful characters encountered on the way."@en
  • "In his most challenging journey to date, Michael Palin tackles the greatest mountain range on earth. It is a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching 1800 miles from the borders of Afghanistan to South-West China. Penetrated but never conquered, it remains the world's most majestic natural barrier, a magnificant wilderness that shapes the history and politics of Asia to this day. Having previously risen to the challenges of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest mountains in the world were a natural target for Michael Palin."@en
  • "Having risen to the challenge of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest mountains in the world were a natural target for Michael Palin. In a journey rarely, if ever, attempted before, in 6 months of hard travelling Palin takes on the full length of the Himalaya including the Khyber Pass, the hidden valleys of the Hindu Kush, ancient cities like Peshawar and Lahore, the mighty peaks of K2, Annapurna and Everest, the gorges of the Yangtze, the tribal lands of the Indo-Burmese border and the vast Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh. Facing altitudes as high as 17,500 feet as well as some of the world's deepest gorges, Palin also passed through political flashpoints like Pakistan's remote north-west frontier, terrorist-torn Kashmir and the mountains of Nagaland, only recently open to visitors. -- Publisher description."
  • "PLAYAWAY. The Himalaya is the greatest mountain range on earth, a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching 1800 miles from the borders of Afghanistan to southwest China. In a journey rarely, if ever, attempted before, Michael Palin takes on the full length of the world's most majestic natural barrier, from the Pakistan-Afghan frontier through India, Nepal, Tibet and China. This book, compiled from Palin's diaries, records the pleasure and pain of his most challenging journey so far."

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  • "rejsedagbøger"
  • "rejsebeskrivelser"
  • "Biography"
  • "dagbøger"
  • "Pictorial works"@en
  • "Pictorial works"

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  • "Himalaya"
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