description: 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...that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, cunning Bajan drug dealers, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiotic Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus and whole armies of pitch-invading penguins, you quickly arrive at a lot more than you bargained for. Harry Thompson's hilarious book tells the story of one of those great madcap enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.
language: English
title: Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World
titlecomplete: Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World
genres: Travelogue, Biography, Adventure, Comedy, Memoir, Nonfiction, Humor, Sports, Autobiography, Travel
ratings_count: 1430
publisher: Isis