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When Johnson went to work for the US Antarctic Program (devoted to scientific research and education in support of the national interest in the Antarctic), he figured he'd find adventure, beauty, penguins, and lofty-minded scientists. Instead he found boredom, alcohol, and bureaucracy. As a dishwasher and garbage man at McMurdo Station, Johnson quickly shed his illusions about Antarctica.

In Pole to Pole we join Michael Palin on the second of his epic challenges. Travelling from the North Pole to the South Pole, he experiences every extreme the globe has to offer. As he crosses 16 countries by train, truck, raft, Ski-Doo, barge, balloon and bicycle, he meets a diverse range of fascinating characters and landscapes while his own endurance is tested to the limit. With his customary aplomb, he plunges himself into the local cultures, starring in a crayfish documentary in Novgorod, attending a baby-rolling ceremony at a Cypriot wedding, and consulting an Mpulugu witch-doctor.

"Pensate al luogo più a nord che conoscete. Fissatelo nella mente, poi proseguite ancora e ancora, attraversate centinaia di chilometri di ghiaccio e neve, oltrepassate vulcani chiazzati di bianco e cascate di cristallo, scivolate tra branchi di renne e orsi polari, smarritevi nel buio gelido della notte artica inseguendo i bagliori verde-porpora delle aurore boreali.