Python, screenwriter, actor, comedian, traveller, author - the long-awaited biography. The story of the transition from self-confessed teenage trainspotter in Yorkshire to Hollywood film star, unique in show business history. In this fascinating first biography of a brilliant and uniquely English talent, Jonathan Margolis reveals the man behind the comedy - and discovers that despite some tragis asopects to his personal life, Michael Palin is as funny a man off camera as on it.