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As You Do

Adventures With Evel, Oliver, and The Vice-President Of Botswana

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As You Do

By: Richard Hammond
Narrated by: Richard Hammond
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About this listen

 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. Balancing home and family with a crazy, peripatetic working life (or not, sometimes), the hamster is well and truly back on the wheel.

©2008 Richard Hammond (P)2008 Orion Publishing Group Ltd Entertainment & Celebrities Celebrity Transportation Polar Region Marriage Funny Witty Dogs

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I have just finished the book and it was superb! Richard showed that he is a man of humour, family loyalty, great friendship and superhuman determination!

His addition to many of the tales we have already (partially as it seems) heard is fantastic.

I found myself at times literally laughing out loud...which is quite strange at 0530 whilst walking your dog!!!

Download and enjoy!!!

Modern day hero!

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I absolutely loved it and I love the way richard always narrates his books. my most memorable moment in this book was when he actually got Oliver started again. it was ridiculous. Richard hammond should really write another book about his times in the grand tour.

absolutely amazing

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Excellent listening too while running and walking and working and running yep yep yep yep

Great book

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absolutely hilarious!
I loved every bit and it was very interesting listening to behind the scenes from his point of view of brilliant Top Gear adventures.

Absolutely hilarious!

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Loved every minute of it. Would
Highly recommend x x x x x x x

Brilliant book

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great stories, feel like I spent a fe hours around the campfire with him. just too short!

classic hammond

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It was very funny and different to other boring adventure stories it was good

hilariously quirky

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enjoyed the book. richard narrated it well. And the music st the mood for the next chapter.

Enjoyed it.

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Short stories and adventures of Richard makes and entertaining listen. Interesting to hear more of the back story of Oliver. 😋

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First the good news. Richard Hammond puts as much warmth, care, excitement and enthusiasm into reading this as he does with "On the edge". It is really nice to hear the story in the author's own words as if they were telling you their stories down the pub. You can cry with him at the sad bits and laugh with him at the truly silly things he has done. Richard Hammond is very easy to listen to and I can never fault his way of story telling at that deserves 5 stars. Bad news....Even though it is well read I feel incredibly cheated by the creators of this "audio book". I feel cheated because if I bought a car and it only had 3 wheels when I should have four I would take it back and demand a refund. Same as if a CD of my favorite band's best hits only had 3 I recognized and a whole bunch of "B" sides that never made it past 30 something in the charts, I would take it back and yell and the poor pimply Saturday worker behind the counter. So If buy a book that says " My adventures with Evel, Oliver and the president of Botswana" I would expect it to have those in it. The Botswana story and Oliver feel like they are dealt with in a relatively short story to the Polar adventure which takes up at least double and a bit more. The story of the floods takes up the rest (around about a third or so of the book), and Evel is cut out of the book completely! I know it says abridged, but to cut out a story mentioned in the title (which I was looking forward to listening to) and keeping in the story of how he ran home one night to avoid the floods is UNACCEPTABLE. For that reason I give the story 1 star only....and a disappointed shake of my head.

Very well read but where's the rest of my book?

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