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Travelling from one end of the globe to the other, Palin and his team endured extremes of heat and cold as they crossed seventeen countries on trains, trucks, ships, rafts, ski-doos, buses, barges, bicycles and balloons.
In this new recording, especially made for BBC Radio Collection, his vivid and humorous descriptions of their adventures will leave you wide-eyed with wonder and laughing out loud.
As a well-paid war correspondent, Crane was shipwrecked en route to Cuba in early 1897. He would later transform the experience into his most famous short story, The Open Boat, in 1898. More...
Tales of why men and women are drawn to the sea and the battles they find there; savage storms, rough waves, mountainous icebergs, sharks, starvation. More...