Michael Palin attempts to put himself into Hemingway's world. The past and the present intertwine, sometimes to startling effect, as Michael travels from Chicago to the forests and lakes of north Michigan, and from the First World War battlefields in Italy, to Paris, and Spain where he pauses to learn about the art of bullfighting and to experience Pamplona during the feria and the famous running of the bulls.Every now and then throughout his travels Michael stops to sample Hemingway's drinks and the bars he frequented. He examines at first hand Hemingway's fondness for guns and bullfights, boxing and the all-action life.His journey ends, as Hemingway's did, among the mountains of Idaho, where Michael visits the house in which America's most famous twentieth-century author took his life. Read Less