Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

Year 1999

ISBN No. 9780297825289

No.of pages 255

Subject People and Places, Travel Writing

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Michael Palin is a popular brand in his own right The combination of palin and travel is always a winner Basil Pao one of the best topographical photographers working today

Table of contents

Home and away: American West; "wide lawns and narrow minds"; Idaho; Michigan; fly fishing; hunting; Ambulance Brigade; First World War; Italy; "A Farewell to Arms"; first love; Paris; the Jazz Age; skiing in Austria; bullfighting; "The Sun Also Rises"; Spain's great spaces. Action man: "Fallas" festival in Valencia; life on the Riviera; Gerald and Sara Murphy ("Tender is the Night"); Key West then and now; Hemingway's six-toed cats; "A Farewell to Arms", "Snows of Kilimanjaro"; driving through Wyoming; Africa on safari; fame and fortune; Sun Valley, Idaho; Spanish Civil War; Martha Gellhorn; Hemingway's film "The Spanish Earth"; "For Whom the Bell Tolls". Last orders: Cuba; drinking; fishing; Hemingway's boatmen, Gregorio Fuentes; third marriage; El Presidente; Second World War; liberating the Ritz; nostalgia; "The Old Man and The Sea"; Cuban revolution; depression; suicide.