Full Circle — Michael Palin

In this account of the third of Michael Palin's travel adventures for \nBBC Television, he journeys for almost a year, covering 50,000 miles and\n all of the 18 countries that border the Pacific Ocean, encompassing a \nwide diversity of landscape, culture and people.\nThe Pacific Rim is one \nof the world's most volatile areas, with economies that are expanding \nfaster than anywhere else on earth - and here the earth itself is in a \nconstant state of flux. Not for nothing is the Pacific coastline known \nas the \""Ring of Fire\"" - volcanoes mark Palin's journey like stepping \nstones, and he climbs one which has recently erupted and is still \nsmoking. He negotiates mountains and plunging gorges, crosses glaciers, \ndodges icebergs, follows great rivers such as the Yangtse and the \nAmazon, and confronts the notorious Cape Horn and the wild and windswept\n beaches of western Alaska.\nThe people Palin meets include one of the \nfew remaining survivors of a Siberian Gulag camp, head-h.