A Special Edition of Himalaya by Michael Palin to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
Winner of TV & Film Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2005.
The
beautiful, glossy, illustrated hardback that accompanied the television
series brought down to a text-led portable-sized paperback with 64 of
the colour photographs grouped together. This is for those of you who
actually want to read about the region and Palin’s extraordinary
adventures during six months of hard travelling.
'A battleground of immense geological forces that is a centre of human tectonics as well, with sacred and secular, tradition and technology, all pushing up against each other . . .'
In Himalaya, Michael Palin travels the length of the world's most astonishing mountain range from its origins in the Khyber Pass to its final descent to the sea in the Bay of Bengal. Along the way he encounters landscapes both beautiful and deadly - and meets the extraordinary people who make these mountains their home.
