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The third of Michael Palin's travel adventures for BBC Television covered 50,000 miles and all of the 18 countries that border the Pacific Ocean. Basil Rao's photographs bear witness to the wide diversity of landscape, culture and people encountered on the journey. The Pacific Rim is one of the world's most volatile areas, with economies that are expanding faster than anywhere else on earth - and here the earth itself is in a constant state of flux. Not for nothing is the Pacific coastline known as the "Ring of Fire" - volcanoes mark Palin's journey like stepping stones, and he climbs one which has recently erupted and is still smoking. He negotiates mountains and plunging gorges, crosses glaciers, dodges icebergs, follows great rivers such as the Yangtse and the Amazon, and confronts the notorious Cape Horn and the wild and windswept beaches of western Alaska. The people Palin meets include one of the few remaining survivors of a Siberian Gulag camp, head-hunters in Borneo, and Japanese monks. He eats maggots in Mexico, rustles camels in the Australian desert, lands a plane in Seattle, and sings with the Pacific Fleet choir in Vladivostock. ... Read more

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Some of the most beautiful photographs you'll ever see
This is a beautiful coffee table style book full of fantastic photographs taken by Basil Pao. These pictures were taken at locations all around the Pacific Rim during the Michael Palin trip known as "Full Circle".

This book should not be confused with Michael Palin's book about that trip, which is simply called "Full Circle". That book also contains a lot of Basil Pao's pictures, but they are secondary to the text written by Michael Palin.

"Full Circle: The Photographs" is exclusively Basil Pao's book, except for a brief 2-page introduction written by Michael Palin.

In my opinion this book is the best of the four books of photographs that Basil Pao has produced to celebrate the various trips that he shared with Michael Palin. (The other three are "Pole to Pole: The Photographs", "Inside Sahara" and "Inside Himalaya".)

One thing that is special about this book is that the pictures are not shown in chronological or geographic order. The pictures are shown by category, with pictures that supplement or contrast with each other shown side by side, and one of the pictures may be from Siberia and the other from Peru.

I can imagine Basil Pao having lots of fun deciding which pictures to include and which pictures to show together.

Some of the best pictures are shown as magnificent two-page spreads. Every picture has a small caption telling where it was taken.

As usual with Basil Pao, most of the pictures (approx. 75%) include people in one way or another. There are some stunning landscapes too, but the pictures of people are the most fascinating. Some of the babies and children are especially cute.

The only thing I'm slightly disappointed about is the dearth of pictures from the USA and Canada. I'm guessing this is due to the film team traveling fairly quickly through this last leg of the journey (Michael Palin admitted that he was homesick), the fact that for us Westerners the people of the USA and Canada are not so exotic, and possibly concerns about model release forms and legal problems.

Very highly recommended. It's not easy to find this book new so you'll have to search for a used copy, and you'll be glad you did.

Rennie Petersen

PS. For those who might be interested, I've written an Amazon "So You'd Like To" guide about Basil Pao and his participation in the Michael Palin trips and the books that have been produced by Basil Pao and Michael Palin. You can find it by clicking on my name and then finding the link to my "So You'd Like To" guides a little ways down on the left of my profile page. ... Read more

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This volume contains all nine scripts from the BBC television series "Ripping Yarns", written by ex-Monty Python members Michael Palin and Terry Jones. It includes such tales as "Tomkinson's Schooldays", "The Curse of the Claw" and "Whinfrey's Last Case". ... Read more

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Hard to remember - impossible to forget - I WANT THAT BOOK!

As my mid-life crisis climaxes (well at least one part of me should!), questions keep popping into my head:"How did I end up here?" "Are these kids mine?" "Where is my Monty Python Book?!?"

Of all the purchases I made in my formative years, it seems that this one, perhaps along with Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon", was the most discriminating. Which makes it all that more annoying that I can no longer find the book! Did it simply disappear? Did one of the various flat-mates and visitors of the time borrow it? Was it a victim of a certain-member-of-my-family's value judgement about suitable bookshelf material for our home?

I find it impossible to forget some parts of the book: the colour page; bloody tennis; the M page; but the rest is getting harder and harder to remember.

Checkingout Amazon for professional reasons (web design), I casually typed in "Monty Python". There in the HUGE list of titles, down towards the end, was the bok (sic). Web-design ?!?! This site is brilliant! "(Hard to Find)" - How did they know? I WANT THAT BOOK! ... Read more

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The advertising posters of the 30s, 40s and 50s are the focus of this nostalgic look back at railway hol iday posters and the graphic artists who produced them. Mich ael Palin provides an entertaining introduction. ' ... Read more

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Readers of What Does Sarah Palin Believe? will learn of her Irish Catholic roots, her mother's conversion to Evangelical Christianity, and the details of how Sarah's role in her 1982 State Championship Wasilla High School girls basketball team gives us clues to her character today.When Sarah Palin, the 44 year old Governor of Alaska, was selected by John McCain to be his running mate in 2008, America discovered a rising political star. Republicans haven't seen such excitement for a candidate since the days of Ronald Reagan. What Does Sarah Palin Believe? tells the story of how her character was formed, how it has been revealed in her public career to date, what she believes, and how those beliefs have been misrepresented and mischaracterized by her political opponents since the moment she set foot on the national stage. Sarah Palin’s personal character was formed by the Alaska wilderness and her tightly knit family. From her mother, Sally Sheeran Heath, she received her faith. From her father, Charles R. “Chuck” Heath, she received her love of sports and the outdoors.1 Growing up in the small communities of Skagway and Wasilla, Alaska during the 1960’s and 1970’s, Sarah’s life personifies the ideal of the independent self reliant American who understands the importance of faith, family, community, and country. Relying on interviews with those who know her best--her parents, sister, high school teammates, coaches, teachers, and colleagues, What Does Sarah Palin Believe? will provide unique insights into this fascinating, once a generation political leader of today and tomorrow. ... Read more

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Too Much Sports
I'm sure Mr. Leahy spent a lot of time on his research, but the emphasis of the book just was not what I was looking for.For me there was too much information about basketball camps and various coaches.I realize sports can shape some of a person's character and it is important to tell about that influence and also special coaches that might have been an inspiration; however, this went into too much year-by-year details about the camps and coaches, and for me just too many pages were devoted to this.There were some interesting facts and antedotes sprinkled in, and some of the church background of her family was interesting.I guess I wanted a more rounded view of her growing up years and early adult years.I read 3/4 of the book, but didn't finish it, and it is very rare for me to not finish a book.I'm really interested in Sarah Palin and her honest down-to-earth approach to things, and would like to read more about her.Perhaps I'll try another book soon - one without so much emphasis on sports.

Sarah Palin - Ripped to shreds by media; set right by this book
I just started this book and can tell already that it portrays Sarah MUCH more accurately than mainstream media. In fact, since the announcement of Sarah Palin as John McCain's running partner, the media has attempted to rip her to shreds. Would they have done this with Hillary Clinton, their media sweetheart?Certainly not, even though they have so much more to pick apart with her.
This book will show you the real Sarah Palin, her love of her family and country, for sports and for Alaska.Her willingness to put herself last, and give up things for herself to give to the team, her family, her country. That is Sarah Palin and the book portrays her well.A must read for anyone voting in this next election. ... Read more

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Forty-five classic episodes of the most entertaining writing to have gone into television anywhere.The minister of silly walks, the dead parrot, banter in a cheese shop - here is every silly, satirical skit, every snide insult, every saucy aside.Amazon.com Review
If you haven't yet memorized any of Monty Python'sscripts, here's your chance. It's difficult to read this book withoutbreaking into a broken English accent -- or at least without laughingaloud. Alarm luckless pedestrians as yougesticulate wildly with an halibut, learn how to determine whethera parrot is really dead or not...

"Nudge, nudge. Snap snap. Grin, grin, wink, wink, say no more". ... Read more

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It's...
I've seen "Monty Python's Flying Circus" so many times that I can recite long stretches of it by memory. But due to all those weird accents and manic deliveries ("GREET! GREET!"), sometimes not everything they say is totally coherent.

Fortunately for those times, Python fans have "The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words," a series of transcripts of every sketch they did. They're lacking in detail at times, but still enormous fun and full of delightfully quotable lines ("It's probably pining for the fjords!").

Basically, ther first volume contains the first half the series, starting with the Mozart show and ending with "Long John Silver Impersonators Vs. Gynecologists. Among the classic comedy sketches: the Spanmish Inquisition, the Ministry of Silly Walks, the lethal joke used against the Germans, semprini, the Lumberjack song, the Attila the Hun show, how to defend yourself from fresh fruit, camel-spotting, Secret Service dentists, and the invasion of tennis-playing blamcmanges from the galaxy of Andromeda.

The dialogue to each one is laid out carefully, with each character identified (like "Interviewer (JOHN)"). Most of these episodes are one long continuing sketch -- ots of sketches that spill over into each other, with bare-bones descriptions of Terry Gilliam's bizarre animations. And, of course, the opening sequences, often with the "It's" man.

These guys had a rare and hysterical writing talent -- it's full of crazy glorious dialogue ("The black death, typhus, cholera, consumption, bubonic plague..." "Ah, those were the days"). Not much description of the action in places, though, especially where there is lots of action. But when necessary, they describe everything down to clothing and tear-shedding.

The problem is that this should only be read after you've seen the series, because otherwise it becomes a bewildering blur of stream-of-consciousness comedy numbers. You have a better chance of finding Ilchester in a cheese shop than of unerstainding what the heck is going on.

The first volume of "The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words" is a hilarious companion book to the legendary TV series, and an excellent refresher for all those great lines. Now, alduce me to introlow myslef!

What the books make one realize
That Monty Python is actually very limited a franchise. These few Python book which script the entire series in it's four year run (as there was only a few eps each year) really leave one saying "Is that all the fuss is about?" Sure there were Python movies (but about half of these films were simply rehashes of the series). I never understood when Python became so big. In the late 70's they were just something I watched on a UHF station latenight. Benny Hill was really funnier than Python (even the UHF station advertised Hill that way) but he didn't become as much of a franchise. Python shouldn't of either. Really there isn't that much to it!

Great!
A great book for any Monty Python fan. Like the title said "All The Words". I got both books (1 & 2) along with the dvd set and I read along with the dvd. Also great for sketches seeing as the desribe the scene as stuff is going on.

I laughed until I stopped
As a fan of MPFC since it first aired on PBS in 1973, these two volumes sort of put a cap on a 30 year fascination with the team. Maybe like me, you've watched every Python-Marathon or taped every show, but having these scripts really is the icing on the cake.

What's striking to me is the simplicity of the scripts. When you watch the episodes, the gags seem so complicated. Then to see The Dead Parrot sketch reduced to just a few pages, you realize how brilliant those guys were in terms of compression, and in terms of acting. An added plus, for me at least, was to finally see the words and phrases that I never quite "got" because they were unique to British English. From there, I logged on to a few websites on British slang and, boy, I realized what MPFC got away with...some of it was pretty raunchy. Anyway, this is two-volume set is priceless for any fan.

So much more fun to see it on TV...
..but as a relaxed reading for someone who wants to learn the sketches by heart, this is the ultimate book. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sahara with Michael Palin is a four part BBC television series presented by British comedian and travel presenter Michael Palin, and first broadcast in 2002. In it, Palin travelled around the Sahara Desert in Northern - and Western Africa, meeting people and visiting places. The journey route included the following countries and territories: Gibraltar, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria. These countries and the entire Sahara area are vast. For example, Algeria is four times the size of France or three times the size of Texas. The Sahara Desert is roughly the same size as the United States, and the trip covered 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometres) and lasted three months. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Michael Palin, John Mortimer, David Cameron, Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin, John Brademas, Donald Acheson, Kate Allen, Erwin Hahn. Excerpt:The Right Honourable David Cameron MP David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is the leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition in the United Kingdom. He has occupied both positions since December 2005. Cameron studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford , gaining a first class honours degree. He then joined the Conservative Research Department and became Special Adviser to Norman Lamont , and then to Michael Howard . He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years. A first candidacy for Parliament at Stafford in 1997 ended in defeat but Cameron was elected in 2001 as the Member of Parliament for the Oxfordshire constituency of Witney . He was promoted to the Opposition front bench two years later, and rose rapidly to become head of policy co-ordination during the 2005 general election campaign. Cameron was viewed by some as a young, moderate candidate, who would appeal to young voters, and in 2005 he won the Conservative leadership election . His early leadership saw the Conservative Party establish an opinion poll lead over Tony Blair 's Labour ; the first in over ten years. Although they fell behind shortly thereafter when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, under Cameron's leadership the Conservatives have been consistently ahead of Labour in the polls. Background Family The son of stockbroker Ian Donald Cameron and his wife Mary Fleur Mount (daughter of Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet ), David Cameron was born in London, and raised at Peasemore in Berkshire . He has a brother, Alec and two sisters, Tania and Clare. His father was born at Blairmore School near Huntly in... ... Read more

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Chapters: Michael Palin, Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, William Henry Smyth, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, Clements Markham, George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, Douglas Freshfield, Royal Geographical Society, Percy Cox, George Bellas Greenough, Francis Younghusband, John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, Sidney William Wooldridge, Laurence Dudley Stamp, Henry Bartle Frere, Roderick Murchison, Frederick Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Philip Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode, Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton, Crispin Tickell, George Taubman Goldie, Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, George Murray, Leonard Darwin, James Marshall-Cornwall, Vivian Fuchs, M. E. Grant Duff, Richard Strachey, Frederick William Beechey, Charles Close, Rutherford Alcock, Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester, Gilbert Laithwaite, James Wordie, John Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne, Gordon Conway, Thomas Holdich, Roger Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley, Ronald Urwick Cooke, Duncan Cumming, David George Hogarth, George Egerton, 2nd Earl of Ellesmere, Francis Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell, Michael John Wise, Harry Lindsay, Edmund George Irving, Neil Cossons, George Sydney Bishop, William Goodenough, William Richard Hamilton. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 284. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Clements Robert Markham KCB FRS (20 July 1830 30 January 1916) was a British geographer, explorer and writer. He was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) between 1863 and 1888, and later served as the Society's president for a further 12 years. In the latter capacity he was mainly responsible for organising the National Ant...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=581916 ... Read more

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Chapters: Martha Gellhorn, Patrick Hemingway, Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure, Hotel Ambos-Mundos, Agnes Von Kurowsky, Gloria Hemingway, International Imitation Hemingway Competition, Finca Vigía, in Love and War, Compleat Angler Hotel, Hadley Richardson, Duff Twysden, Mary Welsh Hemingway, Nick Adams, Carlos Baker, Cojimar, Hemingway: on the Edge. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 96. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. His distinctive writing styleknown as the iceberg theorycharacterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his apparent life of adventure and the public image he cultivated. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and his career peaked in 1954 when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Hemingway's fiction was successful because the characters he presented exhibited authenticity that reverberated with his audience. Many of his works are classics of American literature. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime, with a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works published after his death. Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After leaving high school he worked for a few months as a reporter, before leaving for the Italian front to become an ambulance driver during World War I, which became the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. He was seriously wounded and returned home within the year. In 1922 Hemingway married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives, and the couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent. During his time there he met and was influenced by modernist wri...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9428 ... Read more

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Chapters: Jeffrey Archer, William Golding, Michael Palin, John Gorton, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Colin Cowdrey, Thomas de Quincey, John Profumo, John Mortimer, Richard Harris Barham, Robert Burton, William Whittingham, David Cameron, Robert Hues, John Foxe, Malcolm Turnbull, Elias Ashmole, George Monbiot, William Robert Grove, Henry Vane the Elder, Con Coughlin, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, John Marston, Colin Clark, Thomas Traherne, Stephen Dorrell, Walter Pater, James Gordon Farrell, Cuthbert Ottaway, William Webb Ellis, Robert Runcie, David Langford, David Pearce, Julian Brazier, John Cracroft Wilson, Stephen Lucius Gwynn, Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin, James Crosby, Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley, Peter Twinn, John Hiley Addington, Arnold Jackson, Mark Harper, Lawrence Washington, Vir Sanghvi, Thomas Gordon, Milne Barbour, Paul Barker, Mark Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate, John Brademas, Illtyd Trethowan, Walter Bradford Woodgate, Peter Wingfield, Anne Atkins, Toby Young, Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, John Stefanidis, Mark Williams, Alexander Obolensky, Diane Coyle, Donald Acheson, Piers Gilchrist Thompson, Mylo, Mandy Mitchell-Innes, Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter, Anthony McCowan, Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman, Christopher Goodman, Robert Bolton, Harry Thompson, George Ormerod, Francis Mason, Humfrey Malins, Alan Smith, Heaton Rhodes, Humphrey Llwyd, Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet, Robert Hewison, John Freeman, David Hay, Thomas Alcock, James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough, Edward Brerewood, Bill O'Chee, Charles Langbridge Morgan, John S. Grinalds, John Levett, Kojo Botsio, Henry Savile, Geoffrey Rippon, John Robinson, Frank Finn, Olivia Grant, Richard Barnes, Paul Dehn, Henry Wace, Tom Cottingham Edwards-Moss, Edward Lowth Badeley, John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, Denys Finch Hatton, William Hulme, Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote, Sir Mathew Wilson, 1st Baro... ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Naseem Hamed, Sean Bean, Justin Wilson, Gordon Banks, Michael Palin, Malcolm Elliott, John Fowler, Sue Mappin, Antonia Susan Byatt, Francis Leggatt Chantrey, Samuel Plimsoll, Jessica Ennis, Margaret Drabble, Herbert Chapman, Judy Parfitt, Derek Bailey, Harry Brearley, Joe Cocker, John Hoyland, Jarvis Cocker, Steve Clark, Matt Helders, Alex Turner, Graham Fellows, Howard Wilkinson, Sheila Sherwood, Roger Taylor, Anthony Browne, Steve Peat, Dominic West, John Gatenby Bolton, Neil Warnock, Henry Goodman, Michelle Behennah, Albert Quixall, Frank Barson, Laurie Scott, Martin Powell, Joe Simpson, Stuart Zender, Mel Sterland, William Bullock, Ludwig Glauert, John Du Prez, Victor Burgin, Nick O'malley, Peter Glossop, Raby Howell, Henry Clifton Sorby, Adam Blythe, Helen Sharman, Leonard Cockayne, Simon Stainrod, Dudley Hardy, Ted Burgin, Tony Oxley, Oliver Atkinson, Rip Hopkins, John Obadiah Westwood, Joe Elliott, Jamie Cook, Paul Goodison, Malcolm Bradbury, Bernard Rands, Arthur Lismer, Jonathan Forte, Jeff Rawle, David Blunkett, William Sterndale Bennett, Richard Hawley, James Stuart Blackton, Paul Grist, Rick Savage, Henry Shaw, Andy Nicholson, Nick Matthew, Geoff Nicholson, Charlotte Hudson, Pete Willis, Jean Balguy, Ann Lee. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Naseem Hamed est un boxeur britannique né le 12 février 1974 à Sheffield (Angleterre) devenu champion du monde des poids plumes. Ses parents sont d'origine yéménite et ont émigré à Sheffield. Hamed a adopté le qualificatif de "Prince" et également le surnom de "NAZ". Il est connu pour son style flashy et arrogant, ses entrées spectaculaires sur le ring. C'est un gaucher et son attitude de boxe est peu orthodoxe avec des positions de buste très p...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more