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Very Enjoyable. I like Palin's style of fact filled but fun travel guiding. Quite interesting reading this 15 years later when so much has changed with regard to migrants crossing the Med to get to Europe today. It was happening then too, but maybe in a less organised way, at least not on the same scale. Palin's travels through the harsh realities of African life gave him good reason to feel sympathetic for the people that risk everything to get to Europe. But much was admired too about the differences of the rich culture that encompass the wide desert.

11th Sept had just happened and has also changed a lot in the world, I wonder if such a trip would have been able to be undertaken by BBC today?

A curious observation being that Africa fought hard to get the European rule out after many years of colonialism only to now see people fighting and risking everything to cross the seas to be a part of Europe and it's colonial ideologies and paradises. Ironic!
As Palin himself sums it up, nowhere is paradise.