Great Festivals of the World

by Jackson, Ian

• ISBN13: 9781900979597
• ISBN10: 1900979594
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Pilot Film & Television productions

Summary

Pilot Productions have had years of experience in making television programmes from all over the world. Now they are drawing on this to produce a series of travellers' tales, the first of which will take you on a tour of Great Festivals of the World. A number of things make a festival 'Great': it can be the largest, the maddest, the most famous or the most bizarre. Our selection will have you running with the bulls in Pamplona, bathing with pilgrims at the Kumbh Mela, carousing at the Sydney Mardi Gras, riding camels in Africa, necking beers at the Oktoberfest and getting drenched in the exuberant Thai New Year celebration of Songkran. Fifteen writers each take you to a different celebration around the world. This book is about more than reading other peoples tales -- each story has an extensive factfile so that you can start planning a trip of your own, and dedicated web-pages with updated information about dates and local information. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Great Festivals Map	4	(2)
Calendar of Great Festivals	6	(2)
Introduction	8	(4)
Ian Cross
Part of the Stampede	12	(12)
Mark Eveleigh
The Greatest Festival on Earth	24	(12)
Steve Davey
Japan Lets its Hair Down	36	(12)
David Atkinson
The Blue Men of the Sahara	48	(12)
Barnaby Rogerson
Fantasy, Frills Et Frou Frou	60	(12)
Denise Jeremy
Not Just Here for the Beer	72	(12)
Andrew Waugh
Penance for Lord Muruga	84	(12)
Ed Waller
An African Epiphany	96	(12)
Jessica Ferm
Rajesh Thind
The Festival of the North	108	(12)
Andy Humphries
The Burning Man of Nevada	120	(12)
Daisy Evans
The Spanish Tomato Festival	132	(12)
Martin Roberts
Carnival in a G-String	144	(12)
Jess Halliday
Joining the Venetian Masquerade	156	(12)
Juliet Coombe
A Wet and Wild New Year	168	(12)
Blair Curtis
Kiss a Gift Horse in the Mouth	180
Doug Lansky