As You Do: Adventures With Evel, Oliver, and The Vice-President Of Botswana

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title As You Do: Adventures With Evel, Oliver, and The Vice-President Of Botswana
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Richard Hammond
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 218,Width 128
Category/GenreTelevision
Cars
ISBN/Barcode 9780753825624
ClassificationsDewey:791.45092
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date 28 May 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The wry, honest and often hilarious chronicles of a very brave and clever TV presenter, Arctic Explorer and general drawer of the Short Straw. Moving quickly on from the devastating crash that nearly killed him he ranges widely over his life and times: a visit to Glastonbury with James May reminds of him of his early years of playing in a band and how and why he never quite made it as a rock star; the stunts and other perils that come his way like the TopGear North Pole race (why is it Richard who is out in the howling elements in a dog sled whilst the others are in the heated cab of an all-terrain vehicle?), Africa where he falls in love with and repatriates a stray car, and the US (once to be chased by Rednecks in middle America, the other in pursuit of his mad hero Evel Knievel); his passion for cars, what he owns and why and although he loves his wife why it is a toss-up whether he says hello to the wife or the cars first.

Author Biography

Richard Hammond is internationally famous as a co-presenter of TopGear over the last 5 years with Jeremy Clarkson and James May. He has also presented Braniac: Science Abuse on Sky 1, Should I Worry About...? On BBC 1 and Time Commanders on BBC 2. His Richard Hammond's 5 O'Clock Show was shown every weekday on ITV 1 for 2 months in 2006 and he has been a team captain on the BBC 2 quiz show Petrolheads. He writes a weekly column in The Daily Mirror. His crash whilst driving a jet powered car on TopGear in September 2006 nearly killed him and made him household name.

Reviews

'[Hammond's] prose reveals him as a thoughtful, decent, generous-hearted man. He is capable of humility and his jokes are funny. AS YOU DO is an unpretentious, well-built vehicle with pleasantly surprising extras and more speed and manoeuvrability than you would have thought'--EVENING STANDARD