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  Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World (Paperback) By (author) Harry Thompson

  

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  Short Description for Penguins Stopped PlayA hilarious odyssey in which an amateurish bunch of English eccentrics go cricketing across the globe
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  • Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
  • Published: 05 April 2007
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages
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  • Categories: Humor | Cricket
  • ISBN 13: 9780719563461 ISBN 10: 0719563461
  • Sales rank: 46,643

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• 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.