As You Do . . .: Adventures with Evel, Oliver, and the Vice-President of Botswana »

Richard Hammond is internationally famous for cohosting Top Gear. His previous titles include On the Edge and Richard Hammond's Car Confidential.

Moving quickly on from the devastating crash that nearly killed him, Richard 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 Top Gear 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.

Introduction 1

1 How to be an Arctic Ninja 4

2 Diary of a Brave Polar Explorer 48

3 Diary of a Tired Polar Explorer 67

4 You Don't Need a Land Rover in Surrey 108

5 An Odd Week Part 1 - On Purpose 138

6 An Odd Week Part 2 - Very Much Not on Purpose 156

7 Never Meet Your Heroes 192

Acknowledgements 257

Index 259