Hemingway adventure

Michael Palin

Published by Orion, softcover, illustrated.

Hemingway's world was close and uncomfortable and itchy and sweaty and frequently exhausting . . . This stuff was too good to he wasted on school exams. I must be bold and fearless and go out there and do it for myself' Michael Palin

One hundred years after the birth of Ernest Hemingway Michael Palin set out to discover the man behind the legend. From the forests and lakes of North Michigan to the First World War battlefields in Italy, from Paris in the Roaring Twenties to the Spanish Civil War, Palin journeys on.

There is the running of the bulls in Pamplona, the infectious madness of the Fallas festival in Valencia, and Key West, once unspoilt but now with its own flourishing Hemingway industry. And in Cuba, Hemingway's adopted home for over twenty years, bar-hopping, marlin fishing and daiquiris help unravel some of the myths surrounding Hemingway's life. Full of Palin's unique wit and humour, this is a fascinating insight into the extraordinary mind and life of one of the twentieth century's greatest, most colourful legends.