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A Sackful of Limericks by Michael Palin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
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
$55.00 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
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
Brazil by Michael Palin
$19.99 AUD
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
Diaries 1969-1979 : The Python Years by Michael Palin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
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
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel
____________________________________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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980 to 1988 by Michael Palin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980 to 1988 by Michael Palin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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, culminating in the smash hit A FISH CALLED WANDA (for which ...Show more
Himalaya by Michael Palin
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
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
Into Iraq by Michael Palin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel
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