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(More customer reviews)This book should not be confused with the better-known "Pole to Pole" book written by Michael Palin.
Both this book ("Pole to Pole: The Photographs") and the other book ("Pole to Pole") are based on the BBC TV documentary done by Michael Palin. And both contain text by Michael Palin and photographs by Basil Pao, but they are two quite different books.
In "Pole to Pole" by Michael Palin there is approx. 80% text and 20% photographs. Michael Palin tells about the trip, day by day, and describes what he experienced and what he thought of it all.
In "Pole to Pole: The Photographs" by Basil Pao there is approx. 90% pictures and 10% text. Basil Pao's photographs show us how he saw the people and the places.
This book is a handsome coffee table book, large format (31 x 23 cm) and hardcover. Many of the photographs are beautiful and all of them are interesting. I was surprised by the large percentage (90%?) that feature people. The number of pictures that show landscapes or buildings or monuments are quite few.
One amazing statistic mentioned by Michael Palin in the introduction to this book is that Basil Pao took 30,000 pictures during the 5 1/2 months that the trip lasted! 30,000 pictures! That's approx. 850 rolls of film! That's approx. 200 pictures and 6 rolls of film every day! The mind boggles.
If you like pictures, and especially pictures of people, then this book is highly recommended.
Rennie Petersen
PS. For those who might be interested, I've written an Amazon "So You'd Like To" guide about Basil Pao and his participation in the Michael Palin trips and the books that have been produced by Basil Pao and Michael Palin. You can find it by clicking on my name and then finding the link to my "So You'd Like To" guides a little ways down on the left of my profile page.
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