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The Complete Michael Palin Diaries

Michael Palin

All three of Michael Palin's bestselling diaries covering 30 years from 1969 to 1998.

Throughout his years in Monty Python his many successful film appearances the writing of his novels and his travels to all corners of the globe there was one constant in Michael Palin's life: the daily ritual of writing in his diary.

Now for the first time the complete diaries have been brought together charting Michael's highs and lows and studded with his hallmarks of curiosity and sense of adventure. Volume one begins when he was newly married and struggling to make a name for himself in the world of television comedy. But Monty Python was just around the corner. Volume two follows his trail through seven movies and ends with his final preparations for the documentary that was to change his life - Around the World in Eighty Days. And volume three tracks his journeys to far-flung places not to mention more films award-winning TV roles and a first novel.

'Palin shows himself in these diaries to be an acute observer as well as a champion curator of an anecdote' Sunday Times

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  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : NOV 5, 2015
  • Imprint : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Page Extent : 0
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781474601702
  • Price : INR 2,999
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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.

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