The World According To Clarkson
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The World According To Clarkson is a book of Jeremy Clarkson's
columns he wrote while working for the Sunday Times
. They ran from 7 January 2001 until 14 December 2003. The topics were varied, each one usually based on either a big or trivial news story from the week. About eight were written as Clarkson travelled around Europe
. The book is a number one Sunday Times Million copies bestseller.
Clarkson discussed a wide variety of topics, usually taking a cynical approach.
All of the articles are written with humour but often with some serious undertone.
The book was translated into Polish
and appeared in Poland
under the title "Świat według Clarksona" (Insignis, 2006), becoming the number one bestseller in the country. A further volume of his Sunday Times articles was published in 2009 as Driven to Distraction.
Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson is an English broadcaster, journalist and writer who specialises in motoring. He is best known for his role on the BBC TV show Top Gear along with co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May...
columns he wrote while working for the Sunday Times
The Sunday Times (UK)
The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper, distributed in the United Kingdom. The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International, which is in turn owned by News Corporation. Times Newspapers also owns The Times, but the two papers were founded...
. They ran from 7 January 2001 until 14 December 2003. The topics were varied, each one usually based on either a big or trivial news story from the week. About eight were written as Clarkson travelled around Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
. The book is a number one Sunday Times Million copies bestseller.
Clarkson discussed a wide variety of topics, usually taking a cynical approach.
All of the articles are written with humour but often with some serious undertone.
The book was translated into Polish
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
and appeared in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
under the title "Świat według Clarksona" (Insignis, 2006), becoming the number one bestseller in the country. A further volume of his Sunday Times articles was published in 2009 as Driven to Distraction.