All of the pictures in this book were taken by Basil Pao, the stills photographer who was part of the team who did the trip.

(This is somewhat different from the associated TV program, which makes almost no attempt to follow Hemingway's life chronologically.)

Michael Palin starts the book by telling of his own introduction to Hemingway's writing, reading A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea when he was only 13.

The text of this book is available free to read online on Michael Palin's official web site.

This book is available as an unabridged audiobook, read by Michael Palin and lasts 6 hours 15 minutes.