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Around the World in Eighty Days by Michael Palin
65.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
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
Diaries 1969-1979 : The Python Years by Michael Palin
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
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
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
28.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
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 its story. 'Beyond terrific. I didn't want it to end.' - Bill Bryson Michael Palin - Monty Python ...Show more
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
40.00 NZD
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
Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. ...Show more
Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin
29.99 NZD
Category: History
Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. 'An important historical record and a well-paced story in its own right, Great-Uncle Harry is also much more than that- a tremendous act of love.' Guardian _____________________________ ...Show more
Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980 to 1988 by Michael Palin
60.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meani ...Show more
Himalaya by Michael Palin
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
See other edition. <b>Michael Palin travels through all countries and civilisations bordering the Himalayan mountains, by boat, bus, train, camel, yak and foot.</b><br><br>Having risen to the challenge of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest ...Show more
Himalaya by Michael Palin
29.99 NZD
34.95 (14% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Having risen to the challenge of seas, poles, dhows and deserts, the highest mountains in the world were a natural target for Michael Palin. In a journey rarely, if ever, attempted before, in 6 months of hard travelling Palin takes on the full length of the Himalaya including the Khyber Pass, the hidden ...Show more
Inside Sahara: The Photographs by Michael Palin
19.99 NZD
85.00 (76% off)
Category: Coffee Table Books
A photographic record of Michael Palin's journey across the Sahara, accompanying the major BBC television series "Sahara". Covering nine countries, Pao's photographs capture the magical appeal of the region, and the diverse range of landscapes, cultures and peoples it is home to.
Into Iraq by Michael Palin
40.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
A fascinating and rare insight into the history and culture of Iraq, by Britain's best-loved travel writer. In March 2022, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin journeyed along the River Tigris and into Iraq to gain a glimpse of life in an area of the world that can claim ...Show more