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020			_a9781786331908
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a915.93 _bPAL/NO
100			_aPalin,Michael
245			_aNORTH KOREA JOURNAL
250			_a1
260			_bHutchinson
300			_g172
500			_aA glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as told by Britain’s best-loved travel writer. THE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT DOCUMENTARY A glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as told by Britain’s best-loved travel writer. 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. 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.
650			_aTravel literature
650			_aTravel
650			_aKorea (North)
650			_aManners and customs
650			_aCivilization
650			_aBritish
942			_cLEN
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999			_c178423 _d178423