Read by: Michael Palin
Language: English
Length: 6 hours and 1 minute
Publisher: Audible Studios
Release date: 2005-02-01
Platform | Country | Chart | Last Rank | Last Ranked At |
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Apple | Top Audiobooks - Travel & Adventure | 111 | September 19, 2024 | |
Apple | Top Audiobooks - Travel & Adventure | 53 | September 19, 2024 | |
Apple | Top Audiobooks - Travel & Adventure | 43 | September 19, 2024 | |
Apple | Top Audiobooks - Travel & Adventure | 54 | September 19, 2024 |
From a starting point in Gibralter, Michael makes his way to Morocco, then over the Atlas Mountains to the little-known countries of Mauritania, Mali, and Chad. He travels on the longest train in the world, meets with the Paris-Dakar Rally in the middle of nowhere, and sees the world's largest mud mosque before arriving in Timbuktu.
Then it's a journey with nomadic herders and a camel caravan, to Algeria and a recently re-opened Libya. Finally, Michael returns to the classical remains of Tunisia, where Life of Brian was filmed and he was crucified.
The mysterious, barren desert is revealed to be a place full of people, landscapes, and stories, a vibrant land with a history of civilisation, trade, and conquest stretching from the ancient Egyptians to the oil-rich Islamic republics of today.