Full Circle by Michael Palin

Palin spent a year traveling around the Pacific rim in 1996. There's a startling variety in all these different countries on the Pacific rim. The Northern hemisphere is more monolithic and actually a bit boring. But the rest of the trip through Southeast Asia and South America is different and interesting. Palin has the dry, self-deprecating and inoffensive British humor which is easy to listen to, but doesn't make for much extra entertainment. Still it isn't needed because the locales are so interesting in an of themselves. His excellent descriptions fill in well for the lack of actual images from the book on tape. There is probably a video somewhere, which is hopefully shorter than the book on tape as it might be rather boring actually seeing the place and getting the verbal description at the same time, and only worth fast-forwarding through.