Ebook: North Korea Journal
Author: Palin Michael
- Tags: Autobiography: general, Civilization, Manners and customs, Memoirs, Photographic reportage, Travel, TRAVEL / Asia / General, Palin Michael -- Travel -- Korea (North), Korea (North) -- Social life and customs, Korea (North) -- Civilization, Korea (North) -- Description and travel, Palin Michael, Korea (North)
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Random House
- City: Korea (North
- Language: English
- epub
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...