Michael Palin’s Hemingway Adventure is a blend of homage, adventure & travel writing, as Palin follows in the footsteps of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway in an attempt to unravel some of the myths surrounding the life of the American writer & journalist. Palin travels from the forests of north Michigan to the battlefields of Italy & the Spanish Civil War sites, via bulls in Pamplona & the Valencian Fallas festival, bar hopping in Cuba, marlin fishing, & a few too many daiquiris! ...

Ernest Hemingway is most often associated with Spain, Cuba, & Florida, but Italy was equally important in his life & work. This book, the first on the subject, explores Hemingway s visits throughout his life to such places as Sicily, Genoa, Rapallo, Cortina, & Venice. Richard Owen describes how Hemingway first visited Italy during World War I, an experience that set the scene for A Farewell to Arms. The writer then returned after World War II, where he would find inspiration for Across the River & into the Trees. When Men without Women was published, some reviewers declared Hemingway to be at heart a reporter preoccupied with bullfighters, soldiers, prostitutes, & hard drinkers, but their claims failed to note that he also wrote sensitively & passionately about love & loss against an Italian backdrop. Owen highlights the significance of Italy in the writer s life. On the night he shot himself in July 1961, for example, Hemingway sang a song he had once learned in Cortina d Ampezzo. Hemingway returned to Italy again & again, & the places he visited or used as inspiration for his work are many. At the same time, the inspiration goes both ways: Owen describes how the fifteenth century villa Ca Erizzo at Bassano del Grappa, where the American Red Cross ambulances were stationed, is now a museum devoted to the writer & World War I. Showing how the Italian landscape, from the Venetian lagoon to the Dolomites & beyond, deeply affected one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Hemingway in Italy demonstrates that this country belongs alongside Spain as a key influence on his writing & why the Italian themselves took Hemingway & his writing to heart. ” ...

In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary`s Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke--a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story whose telling Hemingway had spread over more than a decade. In characteristically pragmatic terms, Hemingway revealed to Hotchner the details of the affair that destroyed his first marriage: the truth of his romantic life in Paris & how he lost Hadley, the true part of each literary woman he`d later create & the great love he spent the rest of his life seeking. & he told of the mischief that made him a legend: of impotence cured in a house of God; of a plane crash in the African bush, from which Hemingway stumbled with a bunch of bananas & a bottle of gin in hand; of F. Scott Fitzgerald dispensing romantic advice & champagne in the buff with Josephine Baker; of adventure, human error, & life after lost love. This is Hemingway as you`ve never known him--humble, thoughtful, & full of regret. To protect the feelings of Ernest`s wife--Mary, also a close friend--Hotch held back, keeping the conversations to himself for decades. Now, for the first time, he tells the whole story, mostly in Hemingway`s own words. Hemingway in Love is the intimate & repentantly candid chapter missing from the definitive biography of a literary giant. ...

` The scum of Greenwich Village, New York, has been skimmed off & deposited in large ladled on that section of Paris adjacent to the Cafe Rotonde. New scum, of course, has risen to take the place of the old, but the oldest scum, the thickest scum & the scummiest scum has come across the ocean, somehow, & with its afternoon & evening levees has made the Rotonde the leading Latin Quarter showplace for tourists in search of atmosphere.` ...

When Michael Palin was researching his novel Hemingway's Chair his interest was stimulated by Hemingway's appetite for travel & ' Papa's' evocations of the places he knew. In pursuit of Hemmingway Palin begins at the beginning, in Oak Park, Idaho, then travels to Italy where Hemingway served in the Ambulance Brigade in the First World War. Then on to Paris in the ' Roaring Twenties', bull-running at Pamplona & Hemingway's love affair with Spain. Hemingway became disillusioned & returned to the States, where he lived on Kay West in Florida before moving to Sun Valley, Idaho, until the Spanish civil war recalled him. ...

Michael Palin`s hilarious novel, a ” New York Times” Notable Book, is a tale of a man learning to stand up for what he believes in--just like Ernest Hemingway Martin Sproale is a mild, conventional assistant postmaster living in a small English coastal town, the only exceptional thing about him being his obsession with Ernest Hemingway. This is confined harmlessly enough to an encyclopaedic knowledge of everything about the man & to living in a room surrounded by Hemingway memorabilia. But when an ambitious young outsider, Nick Marshall, is appointed postmaster over Martin & starts to transform the friendly local post office for privatization & the high-tech challenges of the 21st century, Martin is faced with a choice--to go along with the drastic changes, or to be like his hero & fight for what he believes in. Egged on by an American scholar, Ruth Kohler, who is living nearby while completing a book in Hemingway, Martin allows his obsession to take over more & more of his life, culminating in a final, reckless act of revenge against the ruthless modernizers. ...

Walk through the Streets of Paris with Ernest Hemingway. In gorgeous black & white images, Hemingway`s Paris depicts a story of remarkable passion--for a city, a woman, & a time. No other city in any of his travels was as significant, professionally or emotionally, as was Paris. & it remains there, all of the complexity, beauty, & intrigue that Hemingway described in the pages of so much of his work. It is all still there for the reader & traveler to experience--the history, the streets, & the city. Restaurants, hotels, homes, sites & favorite bars are all detailed here. The ninety-five black & white photographs in Hemingway`s Paris are of the highest caliber. The accompanying text reveals Wheeler`s deep understanding of the man; his torment, talent, obstacles & the places of refuge needed to nurture one of the preeminent writers of the twentieth century. Moved by the humanistic writing of the man--a writer capable of transcending his readers to foreign settings & into the hearts & minds of his protagonists--Wheeler was inspired to travel throughout France, Italy, Spain, Africa, & Cuba, where he has sought to gain insight into the motivation behind Hemingway`s books & short stories. As a teacher, lecturer, & photojournalist, he set out to capture & interpret the Paris that Ernest Hemingway experienced in the first part of the century. Through his journal & photographs, Wheeler portrays the intimate connection Hemingway had with the woman he never stopped loving, Hadley, & with the city he loved most, Paris. ...

This is a beautiful & unique wrapping paper featuring the World’s Hemispheres from Cavallini & Co. measuring 71x 51 cm (28”x 20”). It is printed on thick quality Italian laid paper stock. Please note this is not an up to date map. The beautiful print & quality of the paper makes it absolutely ideal for wrapping special presents as well as framing & other creative purposes. ...

Hemmaland
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- St. Veit a.d. Glan
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Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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