Wacky Nation
Wacky Nation: 50 Unbelievable Days out at Britain's Craziest Contests (ISBN 978-184831022-3) is a humorous, often surreal travel book written by James Bamber and Sally Raynes (the creators of Wacky Nation), which showcases wacky races, weird world championships, crazy contests and zany traditions in the United Kingdom.
The introduction describes the book as "an indispensable guide to the UK's most absurd, bizarre and even foolhardy sports. From worm charming to bog snorkelling, nettle eating to shin kicking, there's a great British tradition of holding very strange contests in which getting filthy, feeling sick, risking life and limb - and above all, looking ridiculous - are not mere side effects, but positively celebrated"
The book is published by ICON BOOKS].
Contents
Sports covered in the book include:
- Cheese Rolling
- World Clog Cobbing Championships
- Knaresborough Bed Race
- Tetbury Woolsack Races
- Bognor Birdman
- World Worm Charming Championships
- Shin Kicking
- Egg Rolling
- World Coal Carrying Championships
- Sheep Grand National
- Ottery Tar Barrels
- Totnes Orange Races
- World Pea Shooting Championships
- World Crazy Golf Championships
- Matlock Raft Race
- Oxenhope Straw Race
- Real Ale Wobble
References
- Clover Stroud, Daily Telegraph, February 2009
- Simon Redfern, The Independent, October 2008
- Dixe Wills, The Guardian, December 2008
- This is Plymouth, December 2008