Michael Palin
Michael Palin established his reputation with MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS and RIPPING YARNS. His work also includes several films with Monty Python, as well as THE MISSIONARY, A PRIVATE FUNCTION, an award-winning performance as the hapless Ken in A FISH CALLED WANDA and, more recently, AMERICAN FRIENDS and FIERCE CREATURES. His television credits include two films for the BBC's GREAT RAILWAY JOURNEYS, the plays EAST OF IPSWICH and NUMBER 27, and Alan Bleasdale's GBH.
He has written books to accompany his six very successful travel series, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, POLE TO POLE, FULL CIRCLE, HEMINGWAY ADVENTURE, SAHARA and HIMALAYA. He is also the author of a number of children's stories, the play THE WEEKEND and the novel HEMINGWAY'S CHAIR.
Featured Books, with extracts, by Michael Palin
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Himalaya
Michael Palin
A Special Edition of Himalaya by Michael Palin to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
Winner of TV& Film Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2005.
The
beautiful, glossy, illustrated hardback that accompanied the television
series brought down to a text-led portable-sized paperback...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
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Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980 to 1988
Michael Palin
July 2010 Book of the Month.
The second volume of Michael Palin’s diaries following his time through the 80’s when the pythons split up and Michael found himself entering a time of successful...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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Halfway to Hollywood Diaries 1980 to 1988
Michael Palin
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 December 2009.
Now this would be a test for those celebrities who write their memoirs in between massages and manicures: keep a diary every day and make it interesting. Not just...
Format: Hardback - Released: 17/09/2009
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Michael Palin
This is Michael Palin’s first major expedition where he decided to circumnavigate the world following, as closely as possible, the route taken by Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg. 28,000 miles covered and 14 countries we join Michael in his eye-opening trip...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/06/2009
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Pole to Pole
Michael Palin
Palin’s second journey finds him spending five months travelling from Pole to Pole. He also chose great year to travel as 1991 saw the breaking of the USSR and apartheid ending in South Africa and Michael finding himself in the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
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Full Circle
Michael Palin
Michael describes this journey as the most ambitious and most exhausting of all his trips and travelling around the Pacific Rim certainly means you take in a variety of terrains and temperatures. The author always seems to weed out the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
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New Europe
Michael Palin
In this new journey Michael Palin fills a void in his travels by visiting 22 Eastern European countries, places which had had limited access until the fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the 1980’s. Many of the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/06/2008
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New Europe
Michael Palin
In this new journey Michael Palin fills a void in his travels by visiting 22 Eastern European countries, places which had had limited access until the fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the 1980’s. Many of the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 13/09/2007
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Diaries 1969-1979 : The Python Years
Michael Palin
The Python years, or at least some of them. There is little dirt, gossip or dirty dealings for Palin is a thoroughly nice man and other than a few wild parties (which annoyed him) reports these extraordinary years in a...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2006
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Himalaya
Michael Palin
Winner of TV& Film Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2005 The beautiful, glossy, illustrated hardback that accompanied the television series brought down to a text-led portable-sized paperback with 64 of the colour photographs grouped together. This...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2005
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Himalaya
Michael Palin
Winner of TV& Film Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2005
The
beautiful, glossy, illustrated hardback that accompanied the television
series brought down to a text-led portable-sized paperback with 64 of
the colour photographs grouped together. This is for those of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2005
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Sahara
Michael Palin
The thought of travelling across the Sahara is not the most appealing; sand, sand and more sand comes to mind but as usual Michael Plain manages to find the weird and wonderful as he makes the journey in extremes of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/09/2003
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Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Michael Palin
After writing his novel, about Hemingway, Palin decided he wanted to know more about this fascinating man and so set off to visit the places where Hemingway had lived and what had influenced him over the years. His travels take...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2001
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