Michael Palin - Full Circle: a Pacific Journey With Michael Palin
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Artist: Michael PalinEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Box set, Import
CD Release Date: 2003-08-11
Music Label: BBC
Music reviews of Full Circle: a Pacific Journey With Michael Palin
Music Review: The third of Palins adventurous travels
Rating: 4 Stars
After a couple of small time train journeys for the BBC Michael Palin got roped into Around the World in 80 Days. He followed that up with Pole to Pole and then Full Circle which was an epic journey that started in the Bering Straits beteen Alaska and Russia. And thence went in a counter clockwise manner around the Pacific taking in a stack of countries along the way.
This six CD, six hour(!) release sees Palin reading his own book of the journey. Not the sort of thing that's going to make it onto the Billboard best sellers list but a very valid release. I own this on DVD and also got the book Palin is reading from and so delayed getting any of his box set audio efforts wondering if I'd really get any use out of them. I needn't have worried and if the same concern is holding you back from parting with your hard earned rest assured that these discs are quite worthwhile. I actually tend to listen to them while driving long distance, there is something surreal about driving through very sparse inland scenes for hour after hour in the Australian 'red centre' while listening to Palin talk about the rainforest of the Amazon basin or the mountainous seas of the Bering Strait.
Of course you'd have to have the constitution of a buffalo to actually listen to them disc after disc. My record is two of these discs one after the other because ultimately have a guy read to you can get old hat after too long. Perhaps it would of been nice had they added some background noise that was complementary to the passage being read. But if you pace yourself this release is a worthy addition to the sort of albums you throw in the car in preparation for a long drive.
Highly recommended for fans of Michael Palins conversational style of travelogue.
Description of Full Circle: a Pacific Journey With Michael Palin
The actor and writer reads the account of his third and most ambitious world adventure: an anti-clockwise circumnavigation of the world's largest ocean, the Pacific. With tales of head-hunters in Borneo and eating maggots in Mexico, Palin evokes the full colour and richness of the Pacific Rim.Miscellaneous CDs
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