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The Ridiculous Race: 26,000 Miles, 2 Guides, 1 Globe, No Airplanes

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The Ridiculous Race: 26,000 Miles, 2 Guides, 1 Globe, No AirplanesThe most absurd, hilarious, and ridiculous travelogue ever told, by two hit TV comedy writers who raced each other around the world for bragging rights and a very expensive bottle of Scotch It started as a friendly wager: two old friends from The Harvard Lampoon, Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran now hotshot Hollywood scribes, challenged each other to a race around the globe in opposite directions. There was only one rule: no airplanes. The first man

The most absurd, hilarious, and ridiculous travelogue ever told, by two hit-TV comedy writers who raced each other around the world--for bragging rights and a very expensive bottle of Scotch

It started as a friendly wager: two old friends from The Harvard Lampoon, Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran now hotshot Hollywood scribes, challenged each other to a race around the globe in opposite directions. There was only one rule: no airplanes. The first man to cross every line of longitude and arrive back in L.A. would win Scotch and infamy. But little did one racer know that the other planned to cheat him out of the big prize by way of a ride on a quarter-million-dollar jet pack.

What follows is a pair of hilarious, hazardous, and eye-opening journeys into the farthest corners of the world. From the West Bank to the Aleutian Islands, the slums of Rio to the steppes of Mongolia, traveling by ocean freighter and the Trans-Siberian Railway (pranking each other mercilessly along the way), Vali and Steve plunge eagerly and ill-prepared into global adventure.

The Ridiculous Race is a comic travelogue unlike any other, an outrageous tale of two gentlemen travelers who can't wait to don baggy cardigan sweaters, clench corncob pipes between their teeth, and yell at their sons, "You lazy bums When we were your age, we raced around the world without airplanes "



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 07/08/2008
ISBN: 9780805087406
Pages: 315
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2008 pg. 584
People Weekly 07/07/2008 pg. 47
Entertainment Weekly 07/24/2008 pg. 78
Library Journal 07/21/2008
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