Product Description

Richard Hammond has had a longstanding love affair, bordering on the obsessive some might say, with caravans. He has researched their origins and history, celebrity owners, the uses to which they have been put, their place in history, names, jargon, games with, things to do in, recipes to cook in and future of. He also gives sound practical advice on how to use them to best advantage, race them (ensuring first they are of the non-static variety), and how to destroy them in interesting ways (of which he has much experience - 80 or so at the last count). An essential guide for any owner or prospective owner or indeed anyone with even a passing interest in caravans, of whatever sex or age, or race, or inclination. Or even perhaps someone with apparently no interest in caravans who might have a previously latent interest aroused. Some even talk in hushed tones of a parallel universe, though he has no personal experience of this, yet. Anything is possible.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2712 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

About the Author
Richard Hammond is internationally famous as a co-presenter of TOP GEAR over the last 5 years with Jeremy Clarkson and James May. He has also presented BRAINIAC: 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 DAILY MIRROR His crash whilst driving a jet powered car on TOP GEAR in September 2006 nearly killed him and made him a household name.

Customer Reviews

Can Richard Hammond possibly get any better?!
Richard Hammond, as we all know, is a presenter on Top Gear. It all used to be Jeremy Clarkson launching books, videos etcetera, and being in the public limelight. Richard Hammond was always considered 'the quiet one'.
Not that I'm saying I didn't want Clarkson to be in the public limelight...he's one of the biggest legends of all time. But I'm undoubtedly glad that Hammond came to his senses and started writing books...it started with What Not to Drive, which was a global success.

A Short Hisotry of Caravans in the UK is, without a shadow of a doubt, his best book yet. For the excretion of pure laughter, it is also.
Don't be fooled into thinking it's a serious caravan handbook for some strange reason...we all know there's nothing he likes doing more than hitting the plunger to the damn things.

In this volume, he ridicules caravans to such an extent one would suspect they're literally crying through their fibreglass strands.
It's absolutely hilarious. You may, though, have heard so many people say about so many different books that they are 'hilarious'. It may sound like a bit of a cliche to you...but it isn't. It's raucous, unplugged laughter concealed, (not very discreetly, it has to be said), in 141 joyous pages.

A must read for...caravan fanatics? Er, no...Motoring fans, no.
A must read for ANYONE.

Enough said.

Not worth reading
I bought this would be an interesting and funny book to read, boy was I wrong. There is nothing in this book that could be found on a basic search on the internet. No amazing facts or really funny stories. Think this was written just to make some money by someone who has no interest in caravans.

Brilliant!
Absolutely fabulous. I am a big fan of Hammond and I could not put this down. Would definately recommend this to others. Very well written, extremely witty! Well done Hammond!