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AUTHOR |
Palin, Michael. |
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TITLE |
Sahara with Michael Palin [videorecording] / Prominent Television and Passepartout Productions in association with BBC Television and Arts and Entertainment Network. |
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IMPRINT |
London : BBC Worldwide Ltd. : Hong Kong : Deltamac [dist.], 2003. |
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DESCRIPTION |
2 videodiscs (236 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
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NOTE |
Videodisc release of the TV series in 2001-2002. |
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SUMMARY |
In this four part BBC television series presented by British comedian and travel presenter Michael Palin, and broadcast in 2002. In it, Palin traveled around the Sahara Desert in Northern and Western Africa in four episodes. |
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SUMMARY |
Program 1 : Line in the Sand - from Gibraltar (British crown colony enclaved in Spain) to amazingly varied Morocco, Western Sahara (disputed by morocco and the Polisaro liberation movement) and Mauritania (another ultra-poor Sahel country, yet plagued by extreme obesity, even as a result of forced feeding of women as a status symbol); program 2: Destination Timbuktu - Senegal and Mali; program 3: Absolute Desert - Mali and Niger; program 4: Dire Straits - Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Ceuta (a Spanish enclave in Morocco where refugees hope to enter Europe) and back to Gibraltar. |
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FORMAT |
DVD. |
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LANGUAGE |
In English ; with subtitles in English and Chinese. |
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SUBJECT |
Palin, Michael -- Travel. |
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SUBJECT |
Desert -- Sahara. |
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SUBJECT |
Voyages around the world. |
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SUBJECT |
Documentary films. |
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DISCIPLINE |
Geography. |
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OTHER AUTHOR |
BBC Worldwide Ltd. |
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OTHER AUTHOR |
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service. |
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OTHER TITLE |
Title on disc label/container: Michael Palin [videorecording] : Sahara. |
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ISBN |
4717415380295. |