num_pages: 304
description: 'Completely brilliant' Ian HislopIt seemed a simple enough idea at the 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.
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: John Murray