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North Korea Journal

Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s APA Publications Travel Memoir of the YearWinner of the 2017 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Outstanding Contribution to Travel WritingA glimpse of life inside the world’™s most secretive country, as told by Britain’™s best-loved travel writer.In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Sir Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People’™s Republic of Korea, a cut-off land without internet or phone signal, where the countryside has barely moved beyond a centuries-old peasant economy but where the cities have gleaming skyscrapers and luxurious underground train stations. His resulting documentary for Channel 5 was widely acclaimed.Now he shares his day-by-day diary of his visit, in which he describes not only what he saw ‘“ and his fleeting views of what the authorities didn’™t want him to see ‘“ but recounts the conversations he had with the country’™s inhabitants, talks candidly about his encounters with officialdom, and records his musings about a land wholly unlike any other he has ever visited ‘“ one that inspires fascination and fear in equal measure.Written with Palin’™s trademark warmth and wit, and illustrated with beautiful colour photographs throughout, the journal offers a rare insight into the North Korea behind the headlines.

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