If you thought there would never be another journey like Around the World in 80 Days, you and Michael Palin's family have a lot in common. However, less than three years after the end of his first epic trek, Palin was offered a journey that would be longer, harder and more dangerous. He was immediately hooked. This is the result... setting out to travel from one end of the end to the other following the 30° east line of longitude, and using aircraft only as a last resort, Palin and his team endured extremes of heat and cold as they crossed 17 countries on trains, trucks, ships, rafts, ski-doos, buses, barges, bicycles and balloons... En route they witnessed war in Ethiopia, Kaunda's downfall in Zambia, the end of apartheid in South Africa and the end of communism in the USSR...