TY  - BOOK
AU  - Palin,Michael
TI  - North Korea journal
SN  - 9781786331908
AV  - DS932 .P35 2019
U1  - 951.93 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Hutchinson
KW  - Palin, Michael
KW  - Palin, Michael.
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Travel
KW  - Korea (North)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Diaries
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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
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