Great Festivals of the World

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.