Of All Time

by Michael Palin (Greystone Books, 2018; $28)

Life isn’t fair, and in case anyone needed reminding, consider Erebus, by Michael Palin. Yes, that Michael Palin, he of “I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK” Monty Python fame, and, more recently, an interand stepped down as president of the venerable Royal

man is clearly hogging the brilliant end of the gene pool.

And now he’s gone and would be the proverbial literary dead horse—the doomed Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin—in such a way as to leave certain polar

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