I am just reading "Journey Into Cyprus" and I adore it. It is both incredibly erudite and lots of fun. I also enjoyed his Silk Road book - he seems a true adventurer who has a not just great curiosity but warmth for the people he meets.
A really nice guy, quite apart from a "can't put down" author. I am referring to Thubron, whom I have had the thrill of meeting, though Palin, whom I have not met, seems to be cut from the same cloth. Not all public figures are not when you meet them, as amiable as their outward personae.
I've watched Sir Michael for a long time. I've heard people complain about real life interactions with him and speculate reasons why, like he's only pretending to be nice because his dad wasn't or whatever. But I don't believe that. I always thought he had a big performer ego. He loves to keep the show going and have his moment on stage, and he's jealous of other performers. According to his diary, Robin Williams was one of them. But I think he's still nice. Since actors meet thousands of people every year because of their profession (not stage audience or fans, I mean in-person introductions in social settings), they are quite notorious for yearning to retreat from people. That's the same for Sir Michael; he loves to talk to people and be social, but he's also keen to not doing so. I guess he loved people when he traveled because he was meeting people who didn't know him.
This is a briliant combination, mr Palins humour and Colins walking history might. a good duo to go anywhere
I am just reading "Journey Into Cyprus" and I adore it. It is both incredibly erudite and lots of fun. I also enjoyed his Silk Road book - he seems a true adventurer who has a not just great curiosity but warmth for the people he meets.
Brilliant, modest man. Superb writer.
Thubron is a wonderful writer. I'm reading 'In Siberia' in which he has about a thousand ways of describing nothingness.
A really nice guy, quite apart from a "can't put down" author. I am referring to Thubron, whom I have had the thrill of meeting, though Palin, whom I have not met, seems to be cut from the same cloth. Not all public figures are not when you meet them, as amiable as their outward personae.
I've watched Sir Michael for a long time. I've heard people complain about real life interactions with him and speculate reasons why, like he's only pretending to be nice because his dad wasn't or whatever. But I don't believe that. I always thought he had a big performer ego. He loves to keep the show going and have his moment on stage, and he's jealous of other performers. According to his diary, Robin Williams was one of them. But I think he's still nice. Since actors meet thousands of people every year because of their profession (not stage audience or fans, I mean in-person introductions in social settings), they are quite notorious for yearning to retreat from people. That's the same for Sir Michael; he loves to talk to people and be social, but he's also keen to not doing so. I guess he loved people when he traveled because he was meeting people who didn't know him.