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In this fourth volume of Michael Palin's acclaimed diaries, readers are invited into the intimate and humorous reflections of the author's life during a pivotal period. The entries capture his experiences as a celebrated actor and traveler, blending personal anecdotes with insights into his creative processes. With a keen eye for detail and a knack for storytelling, Palin shares his adventures, challenges, and the evolution of his career, offering a rich tapestry of life behind the scenes in the entertainment industry.

In this engaging third volume of Michael Palin's diaries, readers are invited into the life of the beloved actor and writer as he reflects on his adventures and experiences. The entries capture his travels, creative pursuits, and personal insights, offering a candid glimpse into the joys and challenges he faced during this period. With humor and warmth, Palin shares anecdotes that highlight both his professional endeavors and personal relationships, making it a delightful read for fans and newcomers alike.

The diaries offer an intimate glimpse into Michael Palin's life during the 1980s, capturing his experiences while filming iconic projects like "The Meaning of Life" and "A Fish Called Wanda." Through humorous anecdotes and personal reflections, Palin shares behind-the-scenes stories, insights into his creative process, and interactions with fellow cast members. This candid account not only highlights his career but also reveals the cultural landscape of the time, making it a compelling read for fans of film and comedy.

Bestselling national treasure Michael Palin explores Brazil, a country of dazzling extremes

HMS „Erebus” był jednym z najwspanialszych okrętów, weteranem przełomowych ekspedycji na krańce świata. W 1848 roku, wraz z HMS „Terror” i 129 członkami wyprawy, zaginął w Arktyce podczas próby wytyczenia trasy przez Przejście Północno-Zachodnie, a jego los spowiła mgła tajemnicy. W 2014 roku został odnaleziony. Książka to barwny opis doświadczeń pierwszych odkrywców Ziemi Wiktorii w Antarktydzie, którzy zaledwie kilka lat później zamarzli w lodach Arktyki, mimo desperackich misji ratunkowych. To sugestywna relacja z niezwykłej przygody, wskrzeszona przez podróżnika i gawędziarza. MICHAEL PALIN, gwiazda grupy Monty Pythona, podkreśla, że to niesamowita książka, której nie można odłożyć. „Sunday Times” zauważa, że bez reszty pochłania czytelnika, a David Baddiel z „Daily Mail” określa ją jako wspaniałą opowieść. Sara Wheeler w „Observer” chwali barwny pamiętnik, który ujawnia wiele informacji o odkryciach i Królewskiej Marynarce Wojennej w XIX wieku. Dan Snow dodaje, że autor wnosi do książki umiejętności historyka, pisarza i podróżnika, a Erica Wagner z „Financial Times” opisuje tekst jako żywy i sugestywny. Chris Evans z BBC Radio 2 podkreśla, że to genialna książka, o której wszyscy mówią.

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.The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of family gossip and correspondence he could. He studied every relevant official document. He tracked down what remained of his great-uncle Harry's diaries and letters, and pored over photographs of First World War battle scenes to see whether Harry appeared in any of them. He walked the route Harry took on that fatal, final day of his life amid the mud of northern France. And as he did so, a life that had previously existed in the shadows was revealed to him.Great-Uncle Harry is an utterly compelling account of an ordinary man who led an extraordinary life. A blend of biography, history, travelogue and personal memoir this is Michael Palin at his very finest.

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 to be the cradle of civilisation, that has seen the rise and fall of extraordinary and rich cultures, but that over the past two decades has witnessed turmoil and appalling bloodshed. Now he shares the journal he meticulously kept during his trip, in which he describes a country where the past and the present are constantly intermixed. One minute he is exploring the ruins of Babylon, one of the world's most ancient cities. The next he is scanning the plumes of smoke rising from burn-off towers in the vast oilfields outside Basra or surveying the still war-torn landscape around Tikrit or talking to survivors of Saddam Hussein's campaign against the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq. Peppered throughout with his trademark warmth and wry humour, and illustrated with beautiful colour photographs throughout, the journal offers a wonderful and rare insight into Iraq in all its extraordinary variety.

"Intrepid voyager, writer and comedian Michael Palin follows the trail of two expeditions made by the Royal Navy's HMS Erebus to opposite ends of the globe, reliving the voyages and investigating the ship itself, lost on the final Franklin expedition and discovered with the help of Inuit knowledge in 2014. The story of a ship begins after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, when Great Britain had more bomb ships than it had enemies. The solid, reinforced hulls of HMS Erebus, and another bomb ship, HMS Terror, made them suitable for discovering what lay at the coldest ends of the earth. In 1839, Erebus was chosen as the flagship of an expedition to penetrate south to explore Antarctica. Under the leadership of the charismatic James Clark Ross, she and HMS Terror sailed further south than anyone had been before. But Antarctica never captured the national imagination; what the British navy needed now was confirmation of its superiority by making the discovery, once and for all, of a route through the North-West Passage. Chosen to lead the mission was Sir John Franklin, at 59 someone many considered too old for such a hazardous journey. Nevertheless, he and his men confidently sailed away down the Thames in April 1845. Provisioned for three winters in the Arctic, Erebus and Terror and the 129 men of the Franklin expedition were seen heading west by two whalers in late July. No one ever saw them again. Over the years there were many attempts to discover what might have happened--and eventually the first bodies were discovered in shallow graves, confirming that it had been the dreadful fate of the explorers to die of hunger and scurvy as they abandoned the ships in the ice. For generations, the mystery of what had happened to the ships endured. Then, on September 9th, 2014, came the almost unbelievable news: HMS Erebus had been discovered thirty feet below the Arctic waters, by a Parks Canada exploration ship. Palin looks at the Erebus story through the different motives of the two expeditions, one scientific and successful, the other nationalistic and disastrous. He examines the past by means of the extensive historical record and travels in the present day to those places where there is still an echo of Erebus herself, from the dockyard where she was built, to Tasmania where the Antarctic voyage began and the Falkland Islands, then on to the Canadian Arctic, to get a sense of what the conditions must have been like for the starving, stumbling sailors as they abandoned their ships to the ice. And of course the story has a future. It lies ten metres down in the waters of Nunavut's Queen Maud Gulf, where many secrets wait to be revealed."-- Provided by publisher

19. Mai 1845, Greenhithe, England: Sir John Franklin macht sich mit 134 Männern und zwei Schiffen, der Terror und der Erebus, auf den Weg ins arktische Eis, um den letzten weißen Fleck der Nordwestpassage zu kartieren. Drei Jahre später verschwinden die Schiffe, ihr Schicksal und das ihrer Crews bleibt mehr als anderthalb Jahrhunderte lang ein Rätsel – bis 2014 vor der Nordküste Kanadas ein wahrhaftiger Schatz gefunden wird: das Wrack der HMS Erebus. Michael Palin – Monty-Python-Star, Weltenbummler und begnadeter Erzähler – entfaltet in seinem lebendigen und atmosphärischen Bestseller die so glanzvolle wie tragische Geschichte der Erebus; von ihrem Stapellauf über zahlreiche Fahrten auf allen Weltmeeren und die legendäre Reise in die Antarktis, die ihr und den vom Forschungsgeist getriebenen Entdeckern Ruhm brachte, bis hin zu der verhängnisvollen Expedition in die Arktis, die in einer Katastrophe endete.

Záblesk života v nejuzavřenější zemi světa očima nejoblíbenějšího britského světoběžníka. V květnu roku 2018 někdejší člen slavných Monty Python a zanícený cestovatel Michael Palin strávil dva týdny v notoricky tajnůstkářské Severokorejské lidově demokratické republice, odříznuté zemi bez internetu i signálu, jejímuž venkovu stále vládne zastaralá ekonomika připomínající nevolnictví, zatímco metropoli zdobí blyštivé mrakodrapy a přepychové stanice metra. Výsledný cestopisný dokument stanice Channel 5 zaznamenal velký divácký ohlas. Palin nám nyní předkládá svůj osobní deník, v němž popisuje nejen to, co během své návštěvy spatřil – včetně prchavých záblesků skutečností, které se před ním autority snažily utajit -, ale i rozhovory s místními obyvateli. Otevřeně hovoří o svých setkáních s veřejnými činiteli a pečlivě zaznamenává své úvahy o zemi, jež se nepodobá žádné z těch, které dosud navštívil, a stejnou měrou vzbuzuje strach i fascinaci. Zápisky ze Severní Koreje, psané s Palinovou typickou vřelostí a nápaditostí, doplněné o krásné barevné fotografie, nabízejí ojedinělý pohled na Severní Koreu velmi odlišnou od té, kterou známe z novinových titulků.