product
4867229The Ridiculous Racehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-ridiculous-race-9781627796682/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1163129/cd389508-cdc3-4248-ae27-b57fa361bf2f.jpg?v=638472561740300000206251MXNHolt PaperbacksInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Two comedy writers race each other around the worldno planes allowedin this hilarious true travelogue that "reads like a 300-page Simpsons episode" ( <em>Wired</em>).</strong><br />It started as a friendly wager: two old friends from the <em>Harvard Lampoon</em>, Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran, now hotshot Hollywood comedy writers, 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 a very expensive bottle of 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.<br />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-preparedly into global adventure in a comic travelogue unlike any other, an outrageous tale of two gentlemen travelers who cant 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!"<br />"Riotous fun." <em>People Magazine</em><br />"Hilarious." <em>Entertainment Weekly</em><br />"This is one of the funniest books Ive read in years." <em>The Arizona Republic</em></p>...1729924The Ridiculous Race206251https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-ridiculous-race-9781627796682/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1163129/cd389508-cdc3-4248-ae27-b57fa361bf2f.jpg?v=638472561740300000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781627796682_W3siaWQiOiIzMzQxNzY3OC02M2MwLTQ2NzAtODcwNy1mYTdjMTYwNmVmOTYiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI1MSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjQ1LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIwNiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMTJUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781627796682_<p><strong>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</strong></p><p>It started as a friendly wager: two old friends from <em>The Harvard Lampoon</em>, 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.</p><p>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.</p><p><em>The Ridiculous Race</em> is a comic travelogue unlike any other, an outrageous tale of two gentlemen travelers who cant 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!"</p>...(*_*)9781627796682_<p><strong>Two comedy writers race each other around the worldno planes allowedin this hilarious true travelogue that reads like a 300-page Simpsons episode (<em>Wired</em>).</strong></p><p>It started as a friendly wager: two old friends from the <em>Harvard Lampoon</em>, Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran, now hotshot Hollywood comedy writers, 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 a very expensive bottle of 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.</p><p>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-preparedly into global adventure in a comic travelogue unlike any other, an outrageous tale of two gentlemen travelers who cant 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!</p><p>Riotous fun. <em>People Magazine</em></p><p>Hilarious. <em>Entertainment Weekly</em></p><p>This is one of the funniest books Ive read in years. <em>The Arizona Republic</em></p>...(*_*)9781627796682_<p><strong>Two comedy writers race each other around the worldno planes allowedin this hilarious true travelogue that "reads like a 300-page Simpsons episode" ( <em>Wired</em>).</strong><br />It started as a friendly wager: two old friends from the <em>Harvard Lampoon</em>, Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran, now hotshot Hollywood comedy writers, 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 a very expensive bottle of 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.<br />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-preparedly into global adventure in a comic travelogue unlike any other, an outrageous tale of two gentlemen travelers who cant 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!"<br />"Riotous fun." <em>People Magazine</em><br />"Hilarious." <em>Entertainment Weekly</em><br />"This is one of the funniest books Ive read in years." <em>The Arizona Republic</em></p>...9781627796682_Henry Holt and Co.(*_*)9781627796682_Holt Paperbackslibro_electonico_9781627796682_9781627796682Vali ChandrasekaranInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-3946131e-eb1c-4da3-a12b-e1abf3da5540.epub2024-03-26T00:00:00+00:00Holt Paperbacks