Michael Palin: 17 books

Michael Palin's terrific account of his journey through 18 countries bordering the Pacific Ocean, published by Phoenix for the first time. For almost a year, Michael Palin travelled through 18 countries on the perimeter of the world's largest ocean, in a spectacular journey of contrasts, drama...

No.1 bestseller Michael Palin's epic journey from the North Pole to the South Pole. 'The cracked and fissured ice-pack offers no comfortable reassurance - no glimmer of any reward to the traveller who has made his way to the top of the world. The Arctic Ocean, known to the Victorians as the...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the bulk of the 1980s, a decade in which the ties binding the Pythons loosened—they made their last film Monty Pyton's Meaning of Life in 1983. For Michael, writing and acting took over much...

As in Halfway to Hollywood and The Python Years, Travelling to Work contains a decade's worth of unedited, unabridged diary entries from multi-talented funnyman Michael Palin. In this volume, the last Palin has agreed to publish, the former Python documents his experience hosting a series of BBC travel...

Michael Palin brengt een van de grootste reisverhalen tot leven In 1845 vertrekt HMS Erebus, het vlaggenschip van twee van de belangrijkste maritieme expedities uit de Britse geschiedenis. Het schip verdwijnt van de kaart en wordt 170 jaar later pas gevonden, op de bodem van de oceaan bij Noord-Canada. In...

The amazingly insightful, funny and brilliant record of Michael Palin's prime years as a member of the famed comedic group, Monty Python. Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s. This volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese,...

Driven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter Michael Palin explores the world of HMS Erebus, last seen on an ill-fated voyage to chart the Northwest Passage. Michael Palin brings the fascinating...

"An ingeniously plotted, beautifully written and hugely enjoyable book that raises tricky questions about... our need for heroes [and] the price of personal compromise.'"—The Daily Telegraph For the first time since his much-beloved tale Hemingway's Chair was published in 1998,...

Michael Palin è convinto di essere dromomane: praticamente da sempre, è ossessionato dal desiderio di viaggiare. Anche se nella sua prima vita ha fatto il comico e militato nei leggendari Monty Python, il “virus” era in circolo, e nel 1989 la BBC gli propone una cura: ripercorrere i passi di...

No. 1 bestseller and superstar doing what he does best, introducing millions of avid readers to little-known peoples and places. Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern...

Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world. The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert...

Terre attraversate con ogni mezzo in un lungo percorso alla scoperta di quel mondo oltre Cortina protagonista dalla fine della Guerra fredda di tumultuosi cambiamenti. Palin ci mette l’occhio del viaggiatore esperto e il tipico dry humour anglosassone, i luoghi e le persone incontrate aggiungono...

'The pace of this kind of travel has not much changed since Fogg set out in 1872. Trains may be a little faster, but there are certainly no high-speed rail links yet across India, China or the USA. Passenger services have practically disappeared from the world's shipping lanes ... Recourse to air...

If you've ever wondered what happened to the young fellow from Malta who bought his grandfather an altar… If you're concerned about the camper called Jack who found a huge snake in his pack… And if you suspect that an eccentric landowner called Grey spent Christmas a very strange...