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The Wakamiya-maru was a Japanese cargo ship whose crew members became the first Japanese to circumnavigate the globe after their ship went off course after getting caught in a storm en route from Ishinomaki in the TÅhoku region of northern Japan to Edo (now Tokyo) in November 1793.
The book follows the journey he undertook for the BBC series. It consists of text by Palin and many photographs, most of them taken by Basil Pao, the stills photographer who was part of the expedition team. [1] The book chronicles the journey in five chapters: The North Pole to Tallinn – The Arctic, Greenland, Norway, Finland, USSR
The programme is the sequel to Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin, and was the second of Palin's major journeys, the series focusing on a journey along the 30-degree east line of longitude from the North Pole to the South Pole, sticking to using mainly cars, buses, trains and ships to make the 5-month journey, while travelling ...
Lewis Pulsipher reviewed Journey to the Center of the Circle in The Space Gamer No. 49. [1] Pulsipher commented that "With some tough editing, this module might have been worth publication in a magazine as an example of an unusual approach to FRP.
A key part of her journey was as a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile in 1766–1769. Captain James Cook became the first navigator to record three circumnavigations through the Pacific aboard the Endeavour from 1769 to 1779. He was among the first to complete west–east circumnavigation ...
Full Circle is a written accompaniment for Palin's 1997 BBC travel documentary Full Circle with Michael Palin. The book recounts the journey of Palin and the BBC film crew to countries and regions around the rim of the Pacific Ocean in 1996 and 1997. Full Circle consists of text by Palin and photographs by Basil Pao, who accompanied the crew on ...
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[1] [2] It follows him as he retraces the Dubai – Mumbai leg of his journey Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin. Also featured is his reunion with the captain and crew of the al-Shama dhow, in which he had undertaken the journey 20 years ago.