Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

Name: Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael Palin
ISBN: 9780752886411

Author: Michael Palin

Narrator: Michael Palin

Abridged: 5 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 07/20/2006

Categories: Nonfiction, Travel, Essays & Travelogues, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Nonfiction, Adventure

Synopsis

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 American West ('wide lawns and narrow minds'), Idaho, Michigan ('fly fishing, hunting'), Europe in the First World (where Hemingway was wounded serving in the Ambulance Brigade), Cuba (where Hemingway wrote FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS), Paris in the Roaring Twenties and Spain during the Spanish Civil War, Sun Valley and Key West - where the Hemingway lookalike competition is an annual event.

Read by Michael Palin

(p) 1999 Orion Publishing Group

About Michael Palin

Michael Palin has written and starred in numerous TV programmes and films, from Monty Python and Ripping Yarns to The Missionary and The Death of Stalin. He has also made several much-acclaimed travel documentaries, his journeys taking him to the North and South Poles, the Sahara Desert, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe and Brazil. His books include accounts of his journeys, two novels (Hemingway's Chair and The Truth), three volumes of diaries, Erebus, the Story of a Ship and Great Uncle Harry. From 2009 to 2012 he was president of the Royal Geographical Society. He received a BAFTA fellowship in 2013, and a knighthood in the 2019 New Year Honours list. He lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Pam on March 11, 2024

This book was first published in 1999 after one of Palin’s BBC journeys. Instead of his usual around the equator, pole to pole or Sahara-type journeys, this book follows one of Palin’s literary heroes, Ernest Hemingway. With a camera crew, Palin traces the spots where Hemingway lived and traveled fr......more

Goodreads review by Brad on December 28, 2008

A slightly unstuffy, upper middle class, English twit, roaming the Earth in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway sounds like the makings of a fun adventure, and if Michael Palin had given more to his journey (or perhaps simply had been better at recording what he did give) it could have been a fun adve......more

Goodreads review by Simon on August 16, 2019

This was an excellent jaunt around the globe visiting the places that Ernest Hemingway stayed during his life time by the excellent comedian and travel writer Michael Palin. This gives the reader an excellent introduction to Hemingway and how the places he visited in the inter war years influenced h......more

Goodreads review by Mark on March 18, 2018

Ernest Hemingway lived an adventures life, and Michael Palin captures some of that adventure in this book. As always, I enjoyed reading Michael Palin, but there was one thing that put me off- while the writing style was the same, and what I have grow to love from M.P., the layout of the book has cha......more

Quotes

A glorious travel book. There's never a dull moment, either, in the stunning photography or the entertaining travel notes Daily Mail

His easy-going charm and passion for discovery are captivating Daily Express

He observes shrewdly, writes wittily; laughs with, not at, the people he meets, and charmingly slips in a huge amount of information. His approach still towers above its imitators Independent

Palin is the Python we all want to go abroad with Observer

Palin is as engaging a writer as he is a presenter, and one keeps turning the pages with anticipation and pleasure Sunday Telegraph