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Biographie de Michael Palin

Michael Palin established his reputation with Monty Python's Flying Circus and Ripping Yarns. His work also includes several films with Monty Python, as well as The Missionary, A Private Function, an award-winning performance as the hapless Ken in A Fish Called Wanda and, more recently, American Friends and Fierce Creatures. His television credits include two films for the BBC's Great Railway Journeys, the plays East of Ipswich and Number 27, and Alan Bleasdale's GBH. He has written books to accompany his five very successful travel series Around the World in 8o Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Hemingway Adventure and Sahara. He is also the author of a number of children's stories, the play The Weekend and the novel Hemingway's Chair. Hemingway Adventure and Sahara are also available in Phoenix paperback. Basil Pao began his photographic career in I98o on his return to Hong Kong alter ten years in the United States, where he was an art director for recording companies Atlantic and Polygram in New York, and Warner Music in Los Angeles. His work during that time included the book for the Monty Python film Life of Brian, where he first worked with Michael Palin. They have since collaborated on the books based on the travel series Pole to Pole, Full Circle and Sahara. His travel essays and other works, including photographs for Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor and Little Buddha, have appeared in publications all over the world.