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Pilkington, Karl.
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Pilkington, Karl -- Travel.
Pilkington, Karl -- Diaries.
Voyages and travels.
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Pilkington, Karl.
Pilkington, Karl -- Travel.
Pilkington, Karl -- Diaries.
Voyages and travels.
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An
idiot
abroad
: the
travel
diaries
of
Karl
Pilkington
/ with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant ; photography by Rich Hardcastle and Freddie Clare ; illustrations by Dominic Trevett.
by
Pilkington
,
Karl
.
Canongate, 2010.
Call #:
910.4 P639i
Subjects
Pilkington
,
Karl
--
Travel
.
Pilkington
,
Karl
--
Diaries
.
Voyages and travels.
ISBN:
9781847679260
1847679269
Description:
275 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm.
Summary:
Are the Seven Wonders really as wondrous as everybody says?
Karl
Pilkington
doesn't think so, but then
Karl
is no Michael Palin. He's more of a 'Lanzarote man' to be precise, who hates travelling and prefers throwing sand at crabs or, at a push, eating English food in Spain. In his mind, Pisa is 'badly built ...it's a hazard', the Pyramids have 'a crap design ...all the space at the bottom and nowt at the top' and the Taj Mahal 'is probably shit at the back'. Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant are outraged, goading
Karl
to broaden his mind and visit each of these famous sites for himself. Will a trek along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu be enough to change their friend? For Ricky and Steve it is a genuine social experiment. The book is a rich, fact-filled and hilarious travelogue, written with all of
Karl
's unusual observational skill and counter-intuitive logic that the millions of Ricky Gervais podcast fans have learnt to love.
Other authors:
Gervais, Ricky.
Merchant, Stephen.
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