Michael Palin: New Europe
Michael Palin Audio Book

In his seventh voyage of discovery, Michael Palin reads his own account of a journey into a new Europe.

Michael Palin’s ‘New Europe' starts with a simple idea: that only a couple of hours from home is a half of Europe that is for him as unknown and unexplored as the plateau of Tibet or the vastnesses of the Sahara. Cut off for most of his life by Cold Wars and Iron Curtains, Europe’s eastern lands are now open for business – and Michael sets off to discover them.

Visiting twenty countries, more than in his Himalaya and Sahara journeys combined, he throws himself into local life with his usual reckless curiosity by meeting Romanian lumberjacks, learning about mine-clearing in Bosnia, treading the catwalk at a Budapest fashion show and watching Turkish gents wrestling in olive oil...