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A Sackful of Limericks by Michael Palin
Category: Humour
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 way but aren't sure p ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Michael Palin
Category: Travel
'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 travel, ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Michael Palin
Category: Travel
In the autumn of 1988 Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. But if the rules were simple, nothing else was. Palin's Passepartout was not a loyal French manservant, but a five-person BBC film crew, there to rec ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Michael Palin
Category: Travel Writing
'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 it. To see it, smell it and touch it at the same time . . .' More than a century on from Phileas Fogg's fictional adventure around the world, Michael Palin sets out from the ...Show more
Brazil by Michael Palin
Category: Travel
Brazil is one of the four new global super powers with its vast natural resources and burgeoning industries. Half a continent in size and a potent mix of races, religions and cultures, of unexplored wildernesses and bustling modern cities, it is also one of the few countries Michael Palin has never full ...Show more
Brazil by Michael Palin
Category: Art and Design
Brazil is one of the four new global super powers with its vast natural resources and burgeoning industries. Half a continent in size and a potent mix of races, religions and cultures, of unexplored wildernesses and bustling modern cities, it is also one of the few countries Michael Palin has never full ...Show more
Brazil by Michael Palin
Category: Travel Writing
Shortlisted for: Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year - Specsavers National Book Awards 2012 Michael Palin journeys to a vast country of unimaginable contrasts - Brazil. An economic powerhouse, it is host to a staggering variety of peoples. He starts his journey in the north, in the remote mountains and ...Show more
Brazil by Michael Palin
Category: Audio Books
Brazil is one of the four new global super powers. Half a continent in size and a potent mix of races, religions and cultures, of unexplored wildernesses and bustling modern cities, it is also one of the few countries Michael Palin has never fully travelled. In a new series for BBC1 - his first for five ...Show more
Diaries 1969-1979 : The Python Years by Michael Palin
Category: Biography
Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s, when he was beginning to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter (for the Two Ronnies, David Frost etc). Monty Python was just around the corner. This first volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, ...Show more
Emperor - The Perfect Penguin by Sue Flood; Michael Palin (Foreword by)
Category: Animals & Nature
- This stunning anthology of wildlife photographs captures emperor penguins in their natural habitat in the Antarctic - Incredible pictures reveal both the harshness of the environment and the day-to-day life of the colony - Narrates the penguins' long journey across the sea ice and the immense effort i ...Show more
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
Category: History
____________________________________BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK____________________________________HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth.In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. In 2014, it was found.This is i ...Show more