Michael Palin

Himalaya
(Companion volume to the Travel Channel television
series in the U.S.)

Reading • Talk • Booksigning*

Audiences loved him in Monty Python’s Flying Circus and in such successful films as A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures. His exotic travels have been chronicled in several popular television series, as well as in books that accompany the series, including Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Michael Palin’s Hemingway Adventure, and Sahara. Now, Michael Palin shares his most extraordinary journey yet in his new book, Himalaya, in which he travels through one of the most visually stunning but dangerous regions of the world.

*Mr. Palin will only sign books at this event.

www.palinstravels.co.uk

Michael Palin established his reputation with Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Ripping Yarns. His work also includes several films with Monty Python, as well as Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, The Missionary, Brazil, A Private Function, an award-winning performance as the hapless Ken in A Fish Called Wanda, and more recently American Friends and Fierce Creatures. His television credits include two films for the BBC’s Great Railway Journeys, the plays East of Ipswich and Number 27, and Alan Bleasdale’s GBH.

He has written books to accompany his five very successful travel series, Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Hemingway’s Adventure and Sahara. He is also the author of a number of children’s stories, the play The Weekend and the novel Hemingway’s Chair. Palin was made a CBE in the Queen’s 2000 New Year’s Honors List for services to television, drama, and travel, and in December 2002, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Comedy Awards.

In case of rain, this event will be moved to the Coliseum Books Café.

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