Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999) 0297825283. 4to; original blue boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. 256; full-colour photographs; maps; photographs from Hemingway's lifetime. Top edge of dustwrapper slightly curled and edgeworn; gift inscription to front free endpaper verso. Very good condition. "One hundred years after the birth of Ernest Hemingway, Michael Palin sets out to discover the man behind the legend: a hard-drinking womaniser who liked cats and shooting - but wrote like a dream and left an indelible impression on the twentieth century through his work. Fuelled by intensive reading for his best-selling novel, Hemingway's Chair and, as always, driven by a desire to discover new places, Michael Palin attempts to put himself in 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 famous running of the bulls." .