Just finished Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure in which he travels the world in the footsteps of the great writer and adventurer, Ernest Hemingway.
Palin begins the trail in Illinois where Hemingway was born and lived as a child then follows his life to Milan, Paris, Tanzania, Pamplona, Key West, Havana, Venice, the Belgian Congo and finally back to the United States and Idaho where he blew his brains out with a shotgun aged 61.
It's an amusing four episodes but mainly a fascinating glimpse into the life of a man Palin describes as "a boozy brawler, hunter and fisherman, a dangerous friend who loved to travel", someone i'd previously heard of but knew very little about.
The reason i chose To Have and Have Not from my Blu-ray to-watch pile last night was because it was loosely based on a novel written by Hemingway, a novel deemed unfilmable by most.
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