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Item Details
| Title:
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ON THE EDGE
MY STORY |
| By: |
Richard Hammond, Richard Hammond |
| Format: |
CD-Audio |
| List price:
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£13.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0752890190 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780752890197 |
| Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2007 |
| Edition: |
Abridged edition |
| Description: |
The enormously popular TV presenter's life before his spectacular crash and the story of his recovery |
| Synopsis: |
He describes his childhood and adolescence and the emergence of the adrenalin junkie, the first ridiculous stunts on his tricycle, and an increasing and near obsessive attraction to speed and the smell of petrol. He finds an attractive girl, Mindy, who shares his interests and helps him organise his high-speed life. For such a lively and intelligent communicator TV beckons and he becomes one of the daredevil trio, with Jeremy Clarkson and James May, who make such an enormous world-wide success of the revamped BBC TV programme Top Gear. He describes the personalities, the camaraderie and the stunts with which they entertain their weekly audiences until the day of his 300 mph crash that took Top Gear off the air and plunged a nation into mourning. The day of the crash, his rescue and the flight to hospital in a coma are described and then Mindy recounts the anxious waiting until he finally emerges from his coma - to immediately pull out all his life support equipment - and Richard then pieces together the stages of recovery as his shattered mind slowly reforms. We learn exactly what happened to him and the milestones in his slow recovery to full health.The final chapter recounts the return to Top Gear and the screening of the events of that fateful day. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for British Book Awards: Tesco Biography of the Year Award 2008 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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