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In Nigeria

By (author) Michael Palin

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The extraordinary new book from the bestselling author, a richly illustrated travel adventure across the African nation. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs taken on the trip, and brimming with wry humour and fascinating insights, this is a vivid and varied portrait of a complex country. --------- With his eightieth birthday looming, it crossed Michael Palinâ€™s mind that now might be the time to hang up his boots, to lounge about at home, to take things easy. Then the opportunity to visit Africaâ€™s most populous nation arose. A few weeks later, he was at Lagos airport, camera crew in town. In the journal he kept during his trip he gives a vivid account of the towns and cities he visited, the landscapes he travelled through, and the people he met: from vibrant but chaotic Lagos, to seemingly deserted streets of Nigeriaâ€™s hyper-modern capital, Abuja, to the polluted oil fields of the Niger Delta. Michael Palin is welcomed as an honoured guest by a powerful emir and harangued by a passerby in Benin City. He hears the testimony of a kidnap victim of the terrorist group Boko Haram and experiences the collective spiritual ecstasy of one of Nigeriaâ€™s mega churches. And throughout his trip, he experiences at first hand the contradictions of a country that has so much natural wealth and human talent and yet simultaneously grapples with corruption, religious strife and deep inequality. _______ Praise for Michael Palin: 'I cannot remember the last time I read a book so immediately absorbing and affecting.' Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything â€˜Stirringâ€™ Daily Telegraph 'Everybody's talking about it . . . A brilliant book.' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2 â€˜Tremendousâ€™ Guardian 'I absolutely loved it: I had to read it at one sitting.' Lorraine Kelly, ITV Lorraine â€˜Magisterialâ€™ The Times â€˜[a] winning mix of genuine interest, good-humoured charm and that deceptively steely nose for humbugâ€™ Wanderlust â€˜ [An] absorbing and beautifully illustrated day-by-day accountâ€™ Daily Mirror