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Product Description: Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers, including Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, Nicholas Shakespeare, Peter Godwin, Victoria Hislop, and others...read more
By Mark Ellingham (editor), Peter Florence (editor), Michael Palin (introduced by) and Barnaby Rogerson (editor)
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9781846684968 | Profile Books Ltd, September 20, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers, including Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, Nicholas Shakespeare, Peter Godwin, Victoria Hislop, and others.

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Product Description: Photographer Michael Katakis has spent the last twenty-five years traveling around the world with a camera and a journal. While collaborating with his wife, social anthropologist Kris Hardin, Katakis’s perceptive work has spanned continents and cultures...read more
By John Falconer (foreword by), Kris L. Hardin (contributor), Michael Katakis and Michael Palin (introduced by)
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9780712309141, titled "Photographs & Words: And Additional Text and Materials" | British Library Board, September 30, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Photographer Michael Katakis has spent the last twenty-five years traveling around the world with a camera and a journal.

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Product Description: A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title  The second volume of Michael Palin’s diaries covers the bulk of the 1980s, a decade in which the ties binding the Pythons loosened—they made their last film Monty Pyton’s Meaning of Life in 1983...read more
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9780312682026 | Thomas Dunne Books, March 15, 2011, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title  The second volume of Michael Palin’s diaries covers the bulk of the 1980s, a decade in which the ties binding the Pythons loosened—they made their last film Monty Pyton’s Meaning of Life in 1983.

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Product Description: Best known to Americans as the former star of Monty Python's Flying Circus, author and adventurer Michael Palin circumnavigates the globe following in the famous footsteps of Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg. By camel, train, dog-sled, dhow, and container ship he races against the clock...read more
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9780756784652 | Diane Pub Co, September 30, 1999, cover price $15.00
9780563362135 | Reissue edition (Bbc Pubns, July 1, 1991), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the autumn of 1988 Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by the fictional Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier.

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9781602830134 | Unabridged edition (Audiogo, June 1, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Best known to Americans as the former star of Monty Python's Flying Circus, author and adventurer Michael Palin circumnavigates the globe following in the famous footsteps of Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg.

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Product Description: In a journey rarely, if ever, attempted before, Michael Palin took on the full length of the Himalaya, including the Khyber Pass, the hidden valleys of the Hindu Kush, ancient cities like Peshawar and Lahore, and the mighty peaks of K2, Annapurna and Everest...read more
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9780312341626 | St Martins Pr, June 17, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The actor and author presents a detailed exploration of the entire length of the Himalaya Mountains that celebrates the culture, landscape, and tradition of each of the seven countries that contain a portion of the mountain range.

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9781602838345 | Audiogo, January 5, 2010, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In a journey rarely, if ever, attempted before, Michael Palin took on the full length of the Himalaya, including the Khyber Pass, the hidden valleys of the Hindu Kush, ancient cities like Peshawar and Lahore, and the mighty peaks of K2, Annapurna and Everest.
9780792737575 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, September 30, 2005), cover price $89.95 | About this edition: In this his most challenging journey, Michael Palin tackles the Himalaya, the greatest mountain range on earth, a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching 1800 miles from the borders of Afghanistan to south-west China.

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9780792737568 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, September 30, 2005), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: In this his most challenging journey, Michael Palin tackles the Himalaya, the greatest mountain range on earth, a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching 1800 miles from the borders of Afghanistan to south-west China.

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Product Description: Full Circle could be subtitled "Palin's Book of Wonders." As he and his television crew undertake what may be the first-ever circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim, they prove that there is an awful lot of the world Palin hasn't seen...read more
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9781602838369 | Unabridged edition (Audiogo, January 5, 2010), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Full Circle could be subtitled "Palin's Book of Wonders.
9780754053620 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, May 1, 2000), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Full Circle could be subtitled Palin's Book of Wonders.

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9780754002147 | Chivers Audio Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: A travel guide and memoir of the author's exploration of twenty-thousand miles' worth of the Pacific Rim includes Tierra del Fuego, New Zealand, Australia, and other exotic locales.

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Product Description: Three years after going Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin was off again. Traveling from one end of the globe to the other, Palin and his team endured extremes of heat and cold as they crossed seventeen countries on trains, trucks, ships, rafts, ski-doos, buses, barges, bicycles and balloons...read more
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9780563362838 | Bbc Pubns, January 1, 1993, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Describes the Palin family's journey, discussing their experiences in Ethiopia, Zambia, South Africa, and the USSR

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9781602838338 | Unabridged edition (Audiogo, January 5, 2010), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Three years after going Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin was off again.

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Product Description: "How could I have known then with no maps acquired and my bags not yet packed that my journey had already begun?...The tools of a traveler are compass and map. They calculate distances covered and destinations sought but cannot measure the consequences of experiences on a human heart," writes Michael Katakis in his introduction...read more
By Michael Palin (foreword by)
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9781439175705, titled "Traveller: Observations from an American in Exile" | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 2009, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: "How could I have known then with no maps acquired and my bags not yet packed that my journey had already begun?

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9780743599689, titled "Traveller: Observations from an American in Exile" | Simon & Schuster, June 2, 2009, cover price $13.99

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By Michael Palin (foreword by)
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9780593059685 | Transworld Pub, May 7, 2009, cover price $33.45

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Product Description: In 1978, Kim "Howard" Johnson ran away to join the circus-Monty Python's Flying Circus, that is. The Pythons converged on Tunisia to film their timeless classic Life of Brian, and Howard found himself in the thick of it, doubling for nearly all the Pythons, playing more roles in the film than John Cleese, and managing to ruin only one shot...read more
By John Cleese (contributor), Johnny Heller (narrator), Kim "Howard" Johnson, Michael Palin (contributor) and Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781400140435 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, December 1, 2008), cover price $69.99 | About this edition: In 1978, Kim "Howard" Johnson ran away to join the circus-Monty Python's Flying Circus, that is.

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Product Description: Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday presents a piece of history that very few have ever been able to experience: a peek on the set of a classic Python film.
By John Cleese (foreword by), Johnny Heller (narrator), Kim "Howard" Johnson, Michael Palin (foreword by) and Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781400110438 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, December 1, 2008), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday presents a piece of history that very few have ever been able to experience: a peek on the set of a classic Python film.

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Product Description: “One of the finest and most accurate records of the making of the film that I have ever read. I just wished I could remember what actually went on then.”--Terry Jones“If anyone can remember more about making the Life of Brian than me, it’s Kim ‘Howard’ Johnson...read more
By John Cleese (foreword by), Eric Idle (foreword by), Kim "Howard" Johnson, Terry Jones (foreword by) and Michael Palin (foreword by)
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9780312533793 | Thomas Dunne Books, October 28, 2008, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: “One of the finest and most accurate records of the making of the film that I have ever read.

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Product Description: In His Seventh Voyage of Discovery, Michael Palin Reads His Own Account of a Journey into a New Europe! Michael Palin: New Europe starts with a simple idea: that only a couple of hours from home is a half of Europe that is for him as unknown and unexplored as the plateau of Tibet or the vastness of the Sahara...read more
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9781602833548 | Abridged edition (Audiogo, February 5, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In His Seventh Voyage of Discovery, Michael Palin Reads His Own Account of a Journey into a New Europe!

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Product Description: “Michael Palin is not just one of Britain’s foremost comedy character actors, he also talks a lot. Yap, yap, yap he goes, all day long and through the night . . . then, some nights, when everyone else has gone to bed, he goes home and writes up a diary...read more
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9780312369354 | Thomas Dunne Books, September 4, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A raucous account of the author's prime years as a member of Monty Python describes the group's international travels, battles over censorship, and collaborations on celebrated films, in an intimate record that is complemented by descriptions of Palin's present experiences as a family man.

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9780312384883 | Reprint edition (Griffin, November 11, 2008), cover price $21.99 | About this edition: “Michael Palin is not just one of Britain’s foremost comedy character actors, he also talks a lot.

Miscellaneous:

9781429918336 | St Martins Pr Thomas Dunne Books, September 4, 2007, cover price $9.99

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9781427202260 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, September 4, 2007), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An account of the author's years as a member of Monty Python describes the group's international travels, battles over censorship, and collaborations on celebrated films, in a record complemented by descriptions of Palin's family life.

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Includes the favourite bits from the vast Python oeuvre, which include: why accountancy is not boring, spamelot, the Piranha brothers, the lumberjack song, the larch, every sperm is sacred, the ministry of silly walks, always look on the bright side of life, rat recipes, albatross, constitutional peasants, spam, and more.
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9780413776150 | Methuen Pub Ltd, April 1, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Includes the favourite bits from the vast Python oeuvre, which include: why accountancy is not boring, spamelot, the Piranha brothers, the lumberjack song, the larch, every sperm is sacred, the ministry of silly walks, always look on the bright side of life, rat recipes, albatross, constitutional peasants, spam, and more.

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Chapter one Strip; The football strip has changed dramatically. Today it is an integral part of the economics of football finance, as this chapter reveals. Culturally the strip is now a costume of leisure and its production and consumption is inextricably linked to issues of manufacture, marketing and branding.
By Will Hoon, Michael Palin (foreword by) and Peter Robinson (photographer)
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9781845331610 | Mitchell Beazley, July 28, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Chapter one Strip; The football strip has changed dramatically.

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Product Description: Written by acknowledged experts and published by the Brunel Museum in association with the ICE, this new book presents the fascinating story of the first successful tunnel under a river in soft ground. It is illustrated with 55 contemporary paintings, plans, photographs and engravings, which bring the project to life...read more
By Michael Palin (editor)
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9780950436128 | Inst of Civil Engineers Pub, January 1, 2006, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Written by acknowledged experts and published by the Brunel Museum in association with the ICE, this new book presents the fascinating story of the first successful tunnel under a river in soft ground.

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Product Description: Following the success of Inside Sahara, photographer Basil Pao documents another of Michael Palin's unforgettable journeys, this time to the top of the world: the amazing, breathtaking Himalayas. The 300 resulting photographs provide a dramatic visual record of an extraordinary trip, and will be tied to a Travel Channel special program...read more
By Michael Palin (foreword by) and Basil Pao (photographer)
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9780297843702 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, January 31, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Following the success of Inside Sahara, photographer Basil Pao documents another of Michael Palin's unforgettable journeys, this time to the top of the world: the amazing, breathtaking Himalayas.

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Personal ancedotes, humorous reminiscences, and more than 1,000 photographs and illustrations celebrate the comedy troupe's thirty-fourth anniversary.
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9780312339111 | St Martins Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Personal ancedotes, humorous reminiscences, and more than 1,000 photographs and illustrations celebrate the comedy troupe's thirty-fourth anniversary.

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9781848416154 | Orion Pub Co, January 1, 2004, cover price $35.85

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Personal anecdotes, humorous reminiscences, and more than one thousand photographs and illustrations celebrate the popular comedy troupe that began in 1969.
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9780312311445 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, October 1, 2003), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Personal ancedotes, humorous reminiscences, and more than 1,000 photographs and illustrations celebrate the comedy troupe's thirty-fourth anniversary.
9780752852935, titled "The "Pythons" Autobiography by the "Pythons"" | Orion Pub Co, September 15, 2003, cover price $53.50 | About this edition: Over 30 years ago, a group of five Englishmen - and one wayward American - rewrote the rules of comedy with an unheralded half-hour show of sketches, hilarities, inanities and animations.

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9780312311452 | Griffin, November 15, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Personal anecdotes, humorous reminiscences, and more than one thousand photographs and illustrations celebrate the popular comedy troupe that began in 1969.

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9780752860657, titled "The "Pythons" Autobiography by the "Pythons"" | Orion Pub Co, December 10, 2003, cover price $17.90 | About this edition: In this title, all surviving Pythons have agreed to re-create the story of Monty Python's Flying Circus and the 'genius' who created it.

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Product Description: An intimate view of football, this title not only represents a chronological record of the whole football experience, but also brings together all the strands of the game by providing a visual gallery of players, coaches, fans, grounds, personalities, media and politics - not to mention socio-cultural issues...read more
By Will Hoon (contributor), Michael Palin (foreword by) and Peter Robinson
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9781840008432 | Miller/Mitchell Beazley, November 1, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: An intimate view of football, this title not only represents a chronological record of the whole football experience, but also brings together all the strands of the game by providing a visual gallery of players, coaches, fans, grounds, personalities, media and politics - not to mention socio-cultural issues.

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Personal ancedotes and humorous reminiscences celebrate the comedy troupe's thirty-fourth anniversary.
By Thomas Dunne, Terry Gilliam (narrator), Bob McCabe (narrator) and Michael Palin (narrator)
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9781593974008 | Unabridged edition (St Martins Pr, October 28, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Personal ancedotes and humorous reminiscences celebrate the comedy troupe's thirty-fourth anniversary.

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Product Description: In the spring of 2001, photographer Basil Pao accompanied actor (and former Monty Python member) Michael Palin and a BBC film crew into the heart of the world's largest desert--the Sahara. The result of that journey is these remarkable pictures of landscapes and people, taken on a route that covered nine countries and an astonishing variety of cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Michael Palin (introduced by) and Basil Pao
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9780297843047 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, March 1, 2003, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In the spring of 2001, photographer Basil Pao accompanied actor (and former Monty Python member) Michael Palin and a BBC film crew into the heart of the world's largest desert--the Sahara.

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Product Description: The classic piece of cinematic blasphemy from 1979.
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9780413741301 | Methuen Pub Ltd, April 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The classic piece of cinematic blasphemy from 1979.

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