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Abstract: Murray Bails novel takes a comical, hugely entertaining journey with a group of travellers as they discover that the world is their theme park. There are thirteen ill-assorted men and women on a world tour, a package of pool-sides, museums, hotels and shops. Their destinations include some unlikely tourist attractions, amongst them a Corrugated Iron museum, a collection of Great Brains and an Institution of Marriage. No matter where they go Africa, England, South America, New York or Russia they find nothing as they expected. Challenged by unexpected propositions, differences and subtleties of life, history, themselves Bails archetypal tourists find themselves repelled or attracted and nearly always altered. In this epic fable of the world as a melting-pot of colliding cultures and obsessive, pointless sight-seeing, Murray Bail reveals his gifts as a comic novelist and skewers the pretensions and prejudices of his archetypal tourists with his sense of the absurd.