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    Title
    As You Do
    Subtitle
    Adventures with Evel, Oliver, and the Vice-President of Botswana
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Richard Hammond
    Physical properties
    Format: Hardback
    Number of pages: 296
    Width: 153 mm
    Height: 234 mm
    Thickness: 27 mm
    Weight: 558 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780297855200
    ISBN 10: 0297855204
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: BIO005000
    BICMainSubject: WGCB
    Dewey: 791.45092
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T4.1A
    LC classification: PN
    Publisher
    Orion Publishing Co
    Imprint name
    WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
    Publication date
    18 September 2008
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Main 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 while 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 U.S. (once to be chased by rednecks in middle America, the other in pursuit of his 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. Balancing home and family with a crazy, peripatetic working life (or not, sometimes), the hamster is well and truly back on the wheel.
    Biographical note
    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.
    Promotional headline
    ON THE EDGE was the overall bestselling non fiction title of 2007 Richard will be hosting or appearing on many high-profile television programmes throughout 2008 TopGear returns for two more series in 2008, a further 14 programmes in all
    Review quote
    '[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