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Winner of the British Book Awards, TV & Film Book of the Year, 2005.

In his most challenging journey to date, Palin tackles the Himalayas, the greatest mountain range on earth....

Brought to you by Penguin. Brimming with wry humour and fascinating insights, this is a vivid and varied portrait of a complex country. With his eightieth birthday looming, it crossed Michael Palin’s mind that now might be the time to hang up his boots, to lounge about at home, to take things...

Brought to you by Penguin. In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region of the world that once formed the cradle of civilisation, but that in recent times has witnessed turmoil and appalling bloodshed. It was a...

Michael Palin's bestselling diaries of the 1980s. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life...

Die HMS Erebus war eines der wichtigsten Forschungsschiffe ihrer Zeit, ihre Expeditionen galten als bahnbrechend. Im Jahr 1848 verschwand sie...

Michael Palin is off again, this time to the seemingly desolate Sahara Desert....

In his latest voyage of discovery Michael Palin reads his own account of a journey into a "new" Europe....

Michael Palin journeys to a vast country of unimaginable contrasts - Brazil....

Three years after the epic adventure described in Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin was off again....

TRAVELLING TO WORK is the third volume of Michael Palin's widely acclaimed diaries. After the Python years and a decade of filming, writing and acting, Palin's career takes an unexpected direction into travel, which will shape his working life for the next 25 years. Yet, as the diaries reveal...

Michael Palin reads his own account of a journey into a new Europe....

Michael Palin's epic voyages have seen him circumnavigate the globe, but perhaps the greatest single challenge he has faced is his latest, a crossing of the vast and merciless Sahara Desert....

Following the hugely popular and successful Around the World in 80 Days and Pole to Pole, Michael Palin set off to meet another challenge....

The third and most ambitious of Michael Palin's adventures is a voyage of epic proportions - the circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim....

When Michael Palin was researching for his novel HEMINGWAY'S CHAIR his interest was stimulated by Hemingway's appetite for travel and 'Papa's' evocations of the places he knew. Hemingway remains a compelling figure, and Palin's goal was to revisit Hemingway's world. This book includes the...

In the autumn of 1988, Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world....

Michael Palin's diaries begin in the late 1960s when he began writing for hugely popular programs. He recounts how Monty Python emerged and triumphed. From the success and cult status brought by Monty Python, Palin shares stories from their world tours, their stay at hotels recently trashed by...

Brought to you by Penguin. The wonderful new book from Britain's best-loved travel writer. In February 2025, Michael Palin travelled to Venezuela to get a sense of what life is like in one of South America's most culturally rich, vibrant but also troubled nations. In the journal he kept during...

'A social history of Britain spanning four decades, told with unflagging empathy and wit ' Jonathan Coe, Observer THE FOURTH VOLUME OF MICHAEL PALIN'S BESTSELLING DIARIES There and Back is a new window into the world of Michael Palin, following him as he comes and goes through the filming of...