The not terribly good book of heroic failures - Stephen Pile

Last year Stephen Pile attempted to deliver a daring blow to the success ethic that so pervades Western culture. To his dismay, The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures sold many copies and even became the Sunday Times 'Humour Book of the Year.'

Nothing daunted, Stephen returns with a new selection which brings together the very best of his original classic titles - The Book of Heroic Failures and The Return of Heroic Failures.

The
heartwarming news that stays news is that there really is no limit to
what humanity can achieve, as we move onwards and downwards to ever more
immortal and breathtaking feats of incompetence. The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures lovingly chronicles the all-time heroes who have been so bad at things that they shine as beacons for future generations.

It
is hard not to feel boundless admiration, for example, for the fifty
Mexican convicts who dug an escape tunnel out of their jail and came up
in the courtroom where many of them had been sentenced. Or for the
world's worst tourist, who spent three days in New York believing he was
in Rome.