Penguins Stopped Play

Penguins Stopped Play Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World

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Publisher's Synopsis

'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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780719563461
Publisher: John Murray Press
Imprint: John Murray
Pub date:
DEWEY: 796.3580207
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 230g
Height: 129mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 21mm