Майкл Пэйлин – лучшие книги

Сорок с лишним лет назад группа из пяти англичан - и одного приблудного американца - переписала законы комедийного жанра. "Воздушный цирк Монти Питона", получасовая ни на что не похожая телепрограмма, составленная из скетчей, шуток, абсурда и анимации, впервые появилась в эфире Би-би-си одним поздним вечером 1969 г., без всяких предварительных фанфар. Ее мировое влияние неизменно - до сих пор. Скромный телевизионный проект очень быстро стал самым значительным явлением в современной комедии. Таковым он и остается по сей день. "Питоны о Питонах. Автобиография" - уникальный взгляд на величайшую комик-группу XX века. Книгу украшают 64 страницы фотоматериалов, изъятых из личных архивов Питонов; большую часть их никогда не видели даже самые преданные российские поклонники. Добро пожаловать в мир Питонеска.

Впервые на русском языке книга знаменитого британского путешественника, президента Королевского Географического Общества Великобритании, писателя, актера, участника шоу Монти Пайтон и телеведущего Майкла Пэлина.
Увлекательный рассказ о путешествии по маршруту, который когда-то проложил легендарный Филеас Фогг Жюля Верна: от Лондона до Нью-Йорка через Париж, Венецию, Афины, Каир, Катар, Мумбай, Сингапур, Шанхай, Токио и др. - и при этом никакого надувательства!
Удивительно жизнерадостная история о том, как за 80 дней увидеть весь мир во всем его многообразии стран и культур. При этом, несмотря на дорожные сложности и препятствия, получить истинное удовольствие.
Следуя маршрутом, пройденным героем романа "Вокруг света за 80 дней" Жюля Верна Филеасом Фоггом 115 лет назад, Майкл Пэлин отправился из Реформ-клуба в кругосветное путешествие. Правила были простые, но само путешествие проходило отнюдь не гладко.
От прогулки по Венеции на мусорной барже до корабля в Суэцком канале, велосипеда в час пик и полета на воздушном шаре… все это пример того, как человек может усложнить себе жизнь по собственному желанию…

Впервые на русском языке книга знаменитого британского путешественника, президента Королевского Географического Общества Великобритании, писателя, актера, участника шоу Монти Пайтон и телеведущего Майкла Пэлина.
Увлекательный рассказ о мире автора знаменитых романов "Прощай, оружие!", "Старик и море" и множества замечательных, любимых всеми произведений.
Путешествие по следам Хемингуэя, по местам, где побывал великий писатель, встречи с людьми, которым посчастливилось встречаться с Эрнестом Хемингуэем.
Испания, Куба, Африка и все страны мира, навеки запечатленные в романах Хемингуэя глазами самого известного британского путешественника.

Майкл Пэлин - автор множества книг, ставших бестселлерами, артист, сценарист, документалист, знаменитый путешественник. Пэлин и его коллеги по съемочной группе ВВС уже не раз удивляли телезрителей и читателей широтой и смелостью своих замыслов. Однажды они задумали пройти (проехать, проплыть, пролететь) от Северного полюса к Южному, от "макушки" мира к его "дну". И им это удалось! Отважные и любознательные путешественники проложили свой маршрут в основном вдоль 30-го меридиана; между Арктикой и Антарктикой им пришлось преодолеть значительные территории Северной и Восточной Европы, Западной Азии, огромные пространства всей Восточной Африки,…

Майкл Пэлин - автор множества книг, ставших бестселлерами, артист, сценарист, документалист, знаменитый путешественник. Однажды Пэлин и его коллеги по съемочной группе ВВС превзошли, кажется, все свои прошлые достижения, сумев реализовать дерзкий замысел: они прошли по кругу через все ведущие страны Тихоокеанского региона. Американская Аляска, российский Дальний Восток, Япония, Южная Корея, восточные районы Китая, Вьетнам, Филиппины, Малайзия, Индонезия, Австралия Новая Зеландия, Чили, Боливия, Перу, Колумбия, Мексика, тихоокеанское побережье США, западные провинции Канады и снова Аляска - так отважные путешественники "замкнули полный круг"! "Красота и уродство, величие и убогость, несмолкаемый городской шум и монастырское спокойствие зачастую соседствовали в нескольких километрах друг от друга", - отмечает Пэлин. Основу книги составили "дневниковые записи, пересыпанные песком, подмоченные морской водой, заляпанные всем - от японского рисового вина до пива чича в Андах".

Майкл Пэлин - автор множества книг, ставших бестселлерам, артист, сценарист, документалист, знаменитый путешественник. Пэлин и его коллеги по съемочной группе ВВС в какой-то мере открыли для мира Гималаи. Путешественники прошли Гималаи с запада на восток, через шесть стран Азии, начиная с Хайберского прохода, где зарождаются великие горные хребты, до Бангладеш, где Гималаи сходят на нет, превращаются в пыль и песок, уносимые ветрами и водами Ганга и Брахмапутры в Бенгальский залив. Гималаи - не только "поле сражения" мощнейших геологических сил, но и центр человеческих "тектонических" столкновений, в которых проявляются религиозные и…

Впервые на русском языке книга знаменитого британского путешественника, президента Королевского Географического Общества Великобритании, писателя, актера, участника шоу Монти Пайтон и телеведущего Майкла Пэлина.
Увлекательный рассказ об одном из величайших мест в мире - загадочной пустыне Сахара.
Захватывающее путешествие длиной 16 000 километров по девяти странам и территориям Африки: Алжир, Ливия, Мавритания, Мали, Марокко, Нигер, Сенегал, Сеута, Тунис.

Майкл Пэлин и его коллеги по съемочной группе BBC представили миру свой, новый и во многом необычный взгляд на Сахару. Путешественники прошли Сахару с севера на юг и обратно, через девять стран и территорий Африки. Тайна Сахары "остается в основном неразгаданной. Если не считать моих снов, в которых она расцветает и возвращается к жизни" - отмечает Майкл Пэлин.
Сахара - одно из величайших мест в мире. Ни одно название не звучит столь характерно. Океаны могут быть Атлантическим, Тихим или Индийским, горы могут быть Гималаями, Андами или Альпами, но каждому, кто хочет передать ощущение пустыни, достаточно лишь произнести: "Сахара". В ней есть масштаб и загадочность, тонкая грань между выживанием и гибелью, сила, способная отнять жизнь или изменить ее.
Майкл Пэлин - автор множества книг, ставших бестселлерами, удивительный человек: президент Королевского географического общества, командор ордена Британской империи, комик, сценарист, документалист, путешественник. В 2010 году на сайте издательства самых авторитетных в мире путеводителей Lonely Planet было объявлено голосование, в ходе которого больше миллиона читателей назвали книги Майкла Пэлина своими самыми любимыми спутниками в путешествиях. Пэлин, историк по образованию, прославился как талантливый комедийный актер, участник юмористического шоу комик-группы "Монти Пайтон", а его роль в фильме "Рыбка по имени Ванда" была отмечена премией Британской киноассоциации BAFTA.

Michael Palin's diaries begin when he was newly married and struggling to make a name for himself in the world of television comedy. But Monty Python was just around the corner . . . Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the Pythons then proceeded to tour the USA and Canada. As their popularity grew, so Palin relates how the group went their separate ways, later to re-form for stage shows and the celebrated films THE HOLY GRAIL and LIFE OF BRIAN. Living through the three-day week and the miners strike, and all the trials of a peripatetic life are also essential ingredients of these perceptive and funny diaries.

In his major new work, Michael Palin – former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter – brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus, from its construction in the naval dockyards of Pembroke, to the part it played in Ross’s Antarctic expedition of 1839–43, to its abandonment during Franklin’s ill-fated Arctic expedition, and to its final rediscovery on the seabed in Queen Maud Gulf in 2014. He explores the intertwined careers of the men who shared its journeys: the organisational genius James Clark Ross, who mapped much of the Antarctic coastline and oversaw some of the earliest scientific experiments to be conducted there; and the troubled Sir John Franklin, who, at the age of 60 and after a chequered career, commanded the ship on its final journey. And he describes what life on board was like for the dozens of men who stepped ashore in Antarctica’s Victoria Land, and for the officers and crew who, one by one, froze and starved to death in the Arctic wastes as rescue missions desperately tried to track them down.

To help tell the story, he has travelled to various locations across the world – Tasmania, the Falklands, the Canadian Arctic – to search for local information, and to experience at first hand the terrain and the conditions that would have confronted the Erebus and her crew.

Illustrated with maps, paintings and engravings, this is a wonderfully evocative and epic account, written by a master explorer and storyteller.

Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. When he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to write the biography of the elusive Hamish Melville, a highly influential activist and humanitarian - he seizes the chance to write something meaningful.
His search to find out the real story behind the legend takes Mabbut to the lush landscapes and environmental hotspots of India. The more he discovers about Melville, the more he admires him - and the more he connects with an idealist who wanted to make a difference. But is his quarry really who he claims to be? As Keith discovers, the truth can be whatever we make it...
In this wonderful, heartwarming novel, Michael Palin turns his considerable skills to fiction in the story of a ordinary man on an extraordinary adventure.

May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth is a privileged glimpse into the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful expedition to the Arctic. The letters of the crew and their correspondents begin with the journey's inception and early planning, going on to recount the ships' departure from the river Thames, their progress up the eastern coast of Great Britain to Stromness in Orkney, and the crew's exploits as far as the Whalefish Islands off the western coast of Greenland, from where the ships forever departed the society that sent them forth. As the realization dawned that something was amiss, heartfelt letters to the missing were sent with search expeditions; those letters, returned unread, tell poignant stories of hope. Assembled completely and conclusively from extensive archival research, including in far-flung family and private collections, the correspondence allows the reader to peer over the shoulders of these men, to experience their excitement and anticipation, their foolhardiness, and their fears. The Franklin expedition continues to excite enthusiasts and scholars worldwide. May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth provides new insights into the personalities of those on board, the significance of the voyage as they saw it, and the dawning awareness of the possibility that they would never return to British shores or their families.

Although aimed primarily at an audience of fish (who, let's face it, account for over 40% of all living vertebrates) Monty Python's, film, "The Meaning of Life", spans the whole range of human experience. It starts with the birth of a seemingly insignificant human being (especially from a haddock's point of view) who, sure enough, turns out to play no further part in the film. Nevertheless, the movie manages to stagger on for another ninety minutes or so (equivalent to about six years, if you're a whiting!) during which time it encompasses subjects very close to the hearts of freshwater and marine fish alike, such as: the Great Rift in Ecumenical attitudes towards certain types of prophylactics and sex education in our schools.
For humans there is a running commentary by six well-known fish, an episode of that popular audience-participation game: Find the Fish, and a scene which demonstrates the dangers of eating canned fish. But to be quite honest, if you are intending to watch the movie, and you are human, you are advised to take along your goldfish, or some other finny friend, since some of the scenes may be frankly disturbing for non-aquatic life-forms.
But if, as with many aquatic and even semi-aquatic life forms, regular movie-going is no longer part of your life, we hope this book will convey some of the flavour and excitement of a film that has already been hailed as "an exceptionally fishy experience", "a salt and fresh-water delight" and "a real gill-tickler". We feel that little, apart from the unpleasant smell, has been lost in translating this exceptional and challenging work into literary form (remembering, after all, that it was a member of the fish species that discovered printing). So sit back, adjust your chair to slot 3 (Optimum Reading Position) or slot 5 if you're very old, put your feet up on the "Ped-a-Rest" leisure stool, pour yourself a glass of Chitty's Diet Cognac and enjoy these exceptional insights into what Life is really all about - why we're here, what it all means, how much it costs and will it keep in the salad bar of a medium-priced refrigerator. Who knows, as you turn these pages (or have them turned for you by the Hanigan-Mainbrace Auto-Reader Junior-matic) you may begin to glimpse what a rich and wonderful existence lies beneath the waters that cover 6l%c of this planet. Sixty-one per cent! So enjoy yourself, and remember, if you're not completely satisfied with this book after you've thoroughly perused its contents then you're stupid and worthless.

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Following "Around the World in 80 Days", this book accompanies Michael Palin's second travel series on BBC Television. It is a record of his continuous land and sea journey from the North Pole to the South Pole, following a given line of longitude - 30 degrees East. Air travel is allowed only as a last resort. The line of travel follows as closely as possible existing roads, rivers, railways and shipping routes, and for the most part the means of transport is provided by trains, trucks, ships, rafts, sledges, skidoos, buses, barges, bicycles and balloons. The difficulty, and the enjoyment, lie in accepting and overcoming the limitations which man and nature impose on an abstract line around the globe. The route is remarkably rich and varied. It embraces, amongst others, the CIS, Turkey, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. It starts and ends at the frozen poles and crosses the Equator, passing through such cities as St Petersburg, Istanbul, Luxor and Johannesburg. Palin and his crew witnessed history in the making during their journey, such as the end of communism in the USSR and the end of apartheid in South Africa.

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of family gossip and correspondence he could. He studied every relevant official document. He tracked down what remained of his great-uncle Harry's diaries and letters, and pored over photographs of First World War battle scenes to see whether Harry appeared in any of them. He walked the route Harry took on that fatal, final day of his life amid the…

THE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT DOCUMENTARY
A glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as told by Britain’s best-loved travel writer.
In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a cut-off land without internet or phone signal, where the countryside has barely moved beyond a centuries-old peasant economy but where the citie

'It was a journey of dazzling extremes. Beauty and ugliness, sophistication and squalor, unceasing urban noise and monastic tranquillity . . . This is a record of a year of wonder'

Full Circle is the diary of Michael Palin's epic 245-day, 50,000-mile adventure around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. It's a journey that takes him through eighteen different countries - including some of the most politically volatile and physically demanding places on Earth. Told with Michael's trademark warmth and good humour, this is a spectacular story of high contrasts, intense drama and unmissable beauty.

NOW AVAILABLE: Michael Palin's North Korea Journal
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In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.
On the first, she ventured further south than any human had ever been. On the second, she vanished with her 129-strong crew in the wastes of the Canadian Arctic.
Her fate remained a mystery for over 160 yea

If you've ever wondered what happened to the young fellow from Malta who bought his grandfather an altar…
If you're concerned about the camper called Jack who found a huge snake in his pack…
And if you suspect that an eccentric landowner called Grey spent Christmas a very strange way but aren't sure precisely what that entailed…
Then a dip into Michael Palin's Sackful of Limericks will provide all the answers - and a lot of fun besides.

TRAVELLING TO WORK is the third volume of Michael Palin's widely acclaimed diaries. After the Python years and a decade of filming, writing and acting, Palin's career takes an unexpected detour into travel, which will shape his working life for the next 25 years. Yet, as the diaries reveal, he remained ferociously busy on a host of other projects throughout this whirlwind period.

TRAVELLING TO WORK opens in September 1988 with Michael travelling down the Adriatic on the first leg of a modern-day AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. He was not the BBC's first choice for the series, but after its success and that of the accompanying book the public naturally wanted more. Palin, though, had other plans. Following the tumultuous success of A FISH CALLED WANDA, he is in demand as an actor. His next film, AMERICAN FRIENDS, is based on his great-grandfather's diaries. Next he takes on his most demanding role as the head teacher in Alan Bleasdale's award-winning drama series GBH. There is also his West End play, THE WEEKEND, and a first novel, HEMINGWAY'S CHAIR, and a lead role in FIERCE CREATURES, the much-delayed follow-up to WANDA. Michael describes himself as 'drawn to risk like a moth to a flame. Someone grounded and safe who can be tempted into almost anything.' He duly finds time for two more travel series, POLE TO POLE in 1991, FULL CIRCLE in 1996, and two more bestselling books to accompany them.

These latest diaries show a man grasping every opportunity that came his way, and they deal candidly with the doubts and setbacks that accompany this prodigious work-rate. As ever, his family life, with three children growing up fast, is there to anchor him.

TRAVELLING TO WORK is a roller-coaster ride driven by the Palin hallmarks of curiosity and sense of adventure. These ten years in different directions offer riches on every page to his ever-growing army of fans.