*Signed* Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure by Michael Palin (2000, Hardcover)
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*Signed* Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure by Michael Palin (2000, Hardcover). Personalized, inscribed, and autographed by the author, famous actor, comedian, and writer, Michael Palin. Dust Jacket has been protected by a cover, but there is a small scuff on the back top left corner. Overall, book is in great shape. See photos. One hundred years after the birth of Ernest Hemingway, Michael Palin sets out to discover the man behind the legend: a hard-drinking womanizer who liked cats and shooting -- but wrote like a dream and left an idelible impression on the twentieth century through his work. Fueled by intensive reading for his bestselling novel, Hemingway's Chair, and, as always, driven by a desire to discover new places, Michael Palin attempts to put himself into Hemingway's world. The past and the present intertwine, sometimes to startling effect, as Michael travels from Chicago to the forests and lakes of north Michigan, and from the First World War battlefields in Italy to Paris and Spain, where he pauses to learn about the art of bullfighting and to experience Pamplona during the feria and the infamous running of the bulls. He visits Venice at Carnival time, and samples the infectious madness of the unique Fallas festival in Valencia with its burning effigies and ear-splitting fireworks. Hemingway's wanderlust draws Michael to the island of Key West in Florida, once unspoilt, but where the Hemingway industry now flourishes and a look-alike competition is the high po
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Year: 2000
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780312243999
- Condition: Very Good
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