The World According To Clarkson
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| Author | Jeremy Clarkson |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Factual |
| Publisher | Penguin |
| Publication date |  2004 2006 |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 0141017899 |
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. A selection of chapter titles include[1]:
- Another Day's Holiday? Please, Give Me a Break.
- Men are a Lost Cause, and We're Proud of It.
- Gee Whiz Guys, But the White House is Small.
- Forget the Euro, Just Give Us a Single Socket.
- America, Twinned with the Fatherland.
- A Weekend in Paris, the City of Daylight Robbery.
- They Speak the Language of Death in Basque Country.
- The More We're Told the Less We Know.
- Why Have an Argument? Let's Say It with Fists.
- A Murderous Fox Has Made Me Shoot David Beckham.
- The Nit-picking Twitchers Out to Ground Britain.
- The music he listened to when he was younger.
- Ivan the Terrible is One Hell of a Holidaymaker.
- Save the Turtles: Put Adverts on Their Shells.
- If Only My Garden Grew As Well As the Hair in My Ears.
- Men, You Have Nothing to FEAR But Acronyms.
- Eureka, I've Discovered a Cure for Science.
All of these 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.
