Michael Palin
By the Author
There and Back
THE FOURTH VOLUME OF MICHAEL PALIN'S BESTSELLING DIARIES A new millennium, and a new chapter for Michael Palin unfolds. With a Hemingway travel project testing…
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The Python Years
The funny, warm and moving diaries of a man at the centre of one of the world's most influential comedy troupes. Michael Palin's diaries begin…
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Halfway To Hollywood
The second volume of diaries from one of Britain's best-loved national treasures. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last…
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Travelling to Work
A rollercoaster ride driven by the Palin hallmarks of humour, curiosity and a sense of adventure. Michael Palin was not the BBC's first choice for…
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New Europe
'For most of my lifetime, half of my own continent had been chilled by a Cold War and concealed behind an Iron Curtain. Now there…
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Brazil
'Once a traveller, always a traveller, and as long as there were maps and guide books and airline schedules I was still fatally susceptible to…
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Sahara
'The Sahara embodies scale and mystery, the thin line between survival and destruction, the power to take life or to transform it . . .'…
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Himalaya
'A battleground of immense geological forces that is a centre of human tectonics as well, with sacred and secular, tradition and technology, all pushing up…
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Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
'Hemingway's world was close and uncomfortable and itchy and sweaty and frequently exhausting . . . This stuff was too good to be wasted on…
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Pole To Pole
'Home seems impossibly far away as we step out onto a rough base of ice and snow. The temperature is -25°C. This is considered warm…
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Full Circle
'It was a journey of dazzling extremes. Beauty and ugliness, sophistication and squalor, unceasing urban noise and monastic tranquillity . . . This is a…
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Around The World In Eighty Days
'The reason why the 80-day journey retains its appeal is that it is still the minimum time needed to go round the world and notice…
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The Complete Michael Palin Diaries
All three of Michael Palin's bestselling diaries, covering 30 years from 1969 to 1998. Throughout his years in Monty Python, his many successful film appearances,…
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The Truth
Is the truth really what we make it? From the inimitable Michael Palin, a warm and intelligent novel about good intentions and human frailty. 'A…