Buy this book on-line PALIN**, MICHAEL: : MICHAEL PALIN'S HEMINGWAY ADVENTURE. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1999. ISBN 0297825283.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour photographic montage'd illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing and some inevitable minor,minimal scoring/indents to dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,red headband and immaculate blue+silver facsimile example/ draft of Hemingway's writing,illustrated endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,11-255pp [paginated] includes intro,double-page colour maps of Hemingways world+legend,9 chapters,profuse photographs throughout the text and the book (majority in colour), acknowledgements and credits; plus [unpaginated] b/w photographic frntis,double-page colour photographic title page,double-page photographic author's note+quotation pages, double-page colour scenic photographic contents list/table.
Author's note: The book of 'Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure' was assembled from diaries and notes he kept during,before and after the filming of the television series.It is not,nor is it intended to be,a transcript of the series. The book has a life of its own.
Michael Palin travels in search of the legend of Ernest Hemingway.
CHICAGO and his childhood haunts in Michigan. ITALY - battlefields of the First World War and Carnival in Venice.SPAIN - running with the bulls at Pamplona and Fallas festival in Valencia.Paris and his early years revisited. CUBA - marlin-fishing in the Gulf Stream and daiquiri-drinking in Havana.AFRICA - on safari in Kenya and Uganda.KEY WEST and the Hemingway look-alikes.MONTANA,IDAHO and the Wild West.
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