Erebus

No. 1 bestseller and superstar doing what he does best, introducing millions of avid readers to little-known peoples and places.
Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its rich history, and exquisite sights and talking to its diverse peoples, Michael fills what has been a void in his own experience and that of very many others. 
NEW EUROPE is very much a voyage of discovery, from the snows of the Julian Alps to the beauty of the Baltic sea, he finds himself in countries he'd barely heard of, many unfamiliar and mysterious, all with tragic histories and much brighter futures.
During his 20-country adventure Palin meets Romanian lumberjacks, drives the 8.58 stopping train from Poznan to Wolsztyn, treads the catwalk at a Budapest fashion show, learns about mine-clearing in Bosnia and watches Turkish gents wrestling in olive oil.  
As with all his bestselling books, in his uniquely entertaining style, Palin opens up a new and undiscovered world to millions of readers.

New Europe

A collection of travel writing, which will act as a focus for the Oxfam Bookfest in 2011. It features stories from twenty-five travel writers, including Michael Palin, Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, and others.

Ox travels

In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region of the world that once formed the cradle of civilisation, but that in recent times has witnessed turmoil and appalling bloodshed. In the journal he kept during his trip he describes the war-ravaged city of Mosul and the children he encounters growing up amid its ruins. He contemplates the graffiti-strewn ruins of Saddam Hussein's former palaces, and he notes the constant presence of armed guards. But there are patches of light amid the dark: boisterous New Year celebrations in Akre, the friendliness of generals and colonels at 'Checkpoint Cheerful', and public poetry readings in Baghdad. People getting on with their lives. At the same time, Michael charts the course of one of the great rivers of the world, showing how the water that gave life to such ancient settlements as Babylon and Ur is now becoming a scarce and hotly contested resource. And he considers the role that Iraq's other great natural resource - oil - plays in both providing wealth and threatening political stability. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs taken on the trip, and permeated with his warmth and humour, this is a vivid and varied portrait of a complex country.

Into Iraq

Terre attraversate con ogni mezzo in un lungo percorso alla scoperta di quel mondo oltre Cortina protagonista dalla fine della Guerra fredda di tumultuosi cambiamenti. Palin ci mette l'occhio del viaggiatore esperto e il tipico dry humour anglosassone, i luoghi e le persone incontrate aggiungono storie affascinanti, autoironia e il punto di vista di chi, in 20 anni, ha visto crollare un mondo e nascerne uno nuovo. Fra incontri surreali, spaccati di un'attualità disarmante e ritratti di paesaggi fuori dal tempo, Palin descrive un mondo tanto vicino quanto sconosciuto e popolato da improbabili wrestler, pendolari boscaioli e malati che si curano tramite irudoterapia con le sanguisughe. Un vero e proprio reportage, ricco di informazioni storiche e di prima mano, da leggere per viaggiare con la mente o per preparare il prossimo itinerario.

Viaggio nella Nuova Europa

D'un pôle à l'autre

This work is a visual record of Michael Palin's journey across the Sahara, accompanying the major BBC TV series. The series sees him facing one of the world's greatest challenges - crossing the world's largest desert from the rock of Gibraltar to Morocco, Mauritania, Mali and beyond.

Sahara

Michael Palin's bestselling diaries of the 1980s, including the filming of THE MEANING OF LIFE and A FISH CALLED WANDA.

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