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Watch this on a soggy autumn Sunday afternoon for some great armchair travel then read the book on the commute to work the next week and it'll feel like you're a thousand miles away, and not standing up on a crammed tube train with your face in someone elses arm pit. Palin is charming, unfailingly polite, slightly confused and totally British as he circumnavigates the globe in a modern day homage to Phileas Fogg (or Willie Fogg if you watched the cartoon version as a kid and never got around to reading Jules Verne novel). Watching Palin trotting around the globe however, is endlessly entertaining and so is reading the travel accompaniment to the series. Uh huh, maybe or maybe Python is not actually the apex of British humour.
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Yes, yes many people persist in telling me that Monty Python is both pant wettingly funny and part of the premier league archive of ageing British Comedy along with the Goodies and the Goons (eh? Exactly) but it just makes me go yeah, yeah WHATEVER! Not my sense of humour. yes, there is a caveat to this statement, I only love him when he's doing travel stuff and is not in any way attempting to be humorous in the style of Monty Python. Ok, so I'm outing myself as someone who loves Michael Palin.
(Thanks to the author for making this book available on his website.uk).
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In later years,he would indeed make so many more such journeys,to the farthest reaches of the earth,and to the most inhospitable of places.Each of them would be a compelling adventure in its own right as depicted in his travelogues,and TV series. He also finds something to like wherever he is.Īs the journey finally comes to an end,Palin finds himself thinking that he would miss it,and the sea,and that he could easily go round the world again. Bill Bryson),he maintains his good humour no matter how tough the conditions.And he keeps it clean,no expletives,no swearing. He does not whine or swear.Unlike some other travel writers who get pretty grumpy (e.g. It's a frantic journey,there is hardly any time to relax.He has a deadline to meet.
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He chats up strangers in an easy,affable manner.This book never gets dull,it is full of amusing incidents and wonderful descriptions of so many countries,despite the scarcity of time at his disposal. S,and he even travels in a hot air balloon and by dogsled. It is terrific entertainment,even though he barely has enough time to catch fleeting glimpses of the places he visits.As Palin often says,he is a traveller and not a tourist.Ī good deal of time is spent at sea,also in train
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I didn't care much for the Verne book (though the movie was better),but I loved Palin's adventure. This is the first of Michael Palin's epic journeys as he sets out in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg,from the Jules Verne book,Around the World in Eighty Days. In 2000 Palin became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to television.
His journeys have taken him across the world, the North and South Poles, the Sahara desert, the Himalayas and most recently, Eastern Europe.
In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted the 30th favourite by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.Īfter Python, he began a new career as a travel writer. He has also appeared in several films directed by fellow Python Terry Gilliam and made notable appearances in other films such as A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Palin continued to work with Jones, co-writing Ripping Yarns. Palin appeared in some of the most famous Python sketches, including "The Dead Parrot", "The Lumberjack Song", "The Spanish Inquisition" and "Spam". Before Monty Python, they had worked on other shows such as The Ken Dodd Show, The Frost Report and Do Not Adjust Your Set.
Palin wrote most of his material with Terry Jones. Sir Michael Edward Palin, KCMG, CBE, FRGS is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries.
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