Michael Palin travels Full Circle through 18 countries encircling the Pacific - the world’s largest ocean - in a journey he describes as full of dazzling surprises and jarring extremes, beauty and ugliness, sophistication and squalor.From head-hunters in Borneo to a meal of maggots in Mexico, his route takes him to some of the most politically volatile and demanding places on earth. He climbs the Exalted Mountains in China, dodges icebergs in Chile and gets caught short on the banks of the Amazon in a journey that takes him full circle through contrasts, drama and beauty.