North Korea journal / Michael Palin.
Material type: TextPublisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, [2019]Copyright date: �2019Description: 170 pages : colour illustrations, colour map ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780735279827 (hardcover)
- 951.9305/2 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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900 - 999 | West Grey Ayton Branch Shelves | Non-fiction | 951. 93 PAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 33321003175289 |
"In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a cut-off land without internet or phone signal, where the countryside has barely moved beyond a centuries-old peasant economy but where the cities have gleaming skyscrapers and luxurious underground train stations. His resulting documentary was widely acclaimed. Now he shares his day-by-day diary of his visit, in which he describes not only what he saw--and his fleeting views of what the authorities didn't want him to see--but recounts the conversations he had with the country's inhabitants, talks candidly about his encounters with officialdom, and records his musings about a land wholly unlike any other he has ever visited--one that inspires fascination and fear in equal measure. Written with Palin's trademark warmth and wit, and illustrated with beautiful colour photographs throughout, the journal offers a rare insight into the North Korea behind the headlines."-- Provided by publisher.
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