North Korea journal
Palin, Michael, 1943-2019
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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 for Channel 5 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.
Main title:
North Korea journal / Michael Palin.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Hutchinson, 2019.
Collation:
170 pages : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781786331908 (hbk)
Dewey class:
951.93915.1930452915.193941.1
LC class:
DS932.4
Local class:
951.93915.193
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2527047