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Penguins Stopped Play

Penguins Stopped Play

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Author:
Harry Thompson
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Publication Date:
Apr 05, 2007
Binding:
Paperback / softback
ISBN-13:
9780719563461
ISBN10:
0719563461

Overview

A hilarious odyssey in which an amateurish bunch of English eccentrics go cricketing across the globe

''Completely brilliant'' Ian Hislop

It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe.

Except - hold on a minute - that''s not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, amorous Argentine Colonels'' wives, cunning Bajan drug dealers, gay Australian waiters, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins, you quickly arrive at a whole lot more than you bargained for.

Harry Thompson''s hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.




  • | Author: Harry Thompson
  • | Publisher: John Murray Press
  • | Publication Date: Apr 05, 2007
  • | Number of Pages:
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  • | Binding: Paperback / softback
  • | ISBN-13: 9780719563461
  • | ISBN-10: 0719563461

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