A Special Edition of Himalaya by Michael Palin to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
Winner of TV & Film Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2005.
The beautiful, glossy, illustrated hardback that accompanied the television series brought down to a text-led portable-sized paperback with 64 of the colour photographs grouped together. This is for those of you who actually want to read about the region and Palin’s extraordinary adventures during six months of hard travelling.
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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.
Michael Palin is a fantastic writer and the text reads beautifully, making this a perfect read for the armchair traveller.
Himalaya features in the following genres: Travel, eBooks of the Month, Biographies & Autobiographies, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Recommendations, Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Himalaya is available in Paperback
Himalaya was written by Michael Palin and published by Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) an imprint of Orion Publishing Co
