
Great Journeys
Date de parution : 27 août 1989
Saison 1 - épisode 1 | The Pan-American Highway - Hugo Williams From the Texas-Mexican border the Pan-American Highway snakes down through Central America and some of the world's poorest and most troubled... | |
Saison 1 - épisode 2 | The Salt Road - William Shawcross "To enter the Medina at Fez seemed to me to be whirled right out of the 20th century. Like Alice and the White Rabbit, we tumbled down and round... | |
Saison 1 - épisode 3 | The Ho Chi Minh Trail - Philip Jones Griffiths The Ho Chi Minh Trail is the most quoted legend of the Vietnam War. Now for the first time a westerner travels through the jungle landscape which... | |
Saison 1 - épisode 4 | Across the South Pacific - Dame Naomi James The South Sea Islands have always been portrayed as havens of exotic beauty - paradise on earth. During a wide-ranging search for the traditions of... | |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | The Silk Road - Colin Thubron "As a child I always imagined that the earth had a heart and supposed that it must lie in the core of Asia." Colin Thubron, the celebrated writer,... |
Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Russia’s Road West - Norman Stone As the Soviet Union reels from one crisis to another, Norman Stone , Professor of Modern History at Oxford, wonders whether the ideology of Lenin... | |
Saison 1 - épisode 7 | The Burma Road - Miles Kington "When the Second World War ended, Burma turned its back on the world, drew up its bamboo drawbridge and put out a notice - do not disturb!"... | |
Saison 1 - épisode 8 | Silver Tracks - Billy Bragg & Andy Kershaw With songwriter Billy Bragg and broadcaster/ Andy Kershaw. Even today the 17th-century silver routes of Bolivia are perilous. From the... |