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Diaries 1969-1979 : the Python years
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Diaries 1969-1979 : the Python years

by Michael Palin

This volume of diaries from the late 1960s onwards documents the writer's early career as a television scriptwriter and details the origins, development, and success of the comedy group Monty Python.

Accession 18683 ISBN 9780753821770 Publisher Phoenix
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