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Around the world in 80 days book cover6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() This book is the story of, and the story behind, the making of that television series. Palin was attacked by a parrot in Hong Kong, given a close shave by an apparently blind Indian barber and accepted into the Brotherhood of Mariners by King Neptune himself - all recorded by the BBC film crew and resulting in a six-part television series on BBC1. Their voyage took them from the opulence of the Orient Express to the stench of a Venetian refuse-collecting boat from the lurching progress of an Egyptian camel called Michael to the heights of a hot-air balloon over Aspen,Colorado. ![]() He had to make the journey in 80 days - accompanied by a BBC film crew - using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg. shipped within 2 working days of order About the book: In the autumn of 1988 Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. ![]()
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