An Evening with Michael Palin
Wednesday 15th October
Central Hall, University of York, University Rd, Heslington, York YO10 5DD
6.30pm
7pm
Topping & Company Booksellers present an evening with the legendary Michael Palin.
Michael Palin found fame as a member of the much-adored Monty Python. Since then, he's starred in films such as The Death of Stalin and several much-acclaimed travel documentaries, which have taken him to the North and South Poles, the Sahara Desert, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe and Brazil.
His books include extraordinary accounts of his travels, four bestselling volumes of diaries, Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire and Erebus: the Story of a Ship.
From 2009 to 2012 he was president of the Royal Geographical Society. He received a BAFTA fellowship in 2013, and a knighthood in the 2019 New Year Honours list.
Join us to celebrate his latest book, in which Palin travels to Venezuela to get a sense of what life is like in one of South America's most culturally rich, vibrant but also troubled nations. In the journal he kept during his trip in February 2025, Palin gives a vivid account of the towns and cities he visited, the landscapes he travelled through, and the people he met.
Illustrated throughout with colour photographs taken on the trip, and permeated with his warmth and humour, this is a vivid and varied portrait of a complex country.