On the Edge: My Story by Richard Hammond, ISBN 9780753824047

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For the first time, Richard 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. For such a lively and intelligent communicator, TV beckons and he becomes one of the dare-devil trio, with Jeremy Clarkson and James May, who make such an enormous worldwide 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 300mph crash that took Top Gear off the air and plunged a nation into mourning. The day of the crash, his rescue and his flight to the hospital in a coma are described and his wife 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.

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About the Author: Richard Hammond

Richard Mark Hammond is a British TV presenter, most noted for co-hosting car programme Top Gear alongside Jeremy Clarkson and James May, as well as presenting Brainiac: Science Abuse on Sky1, Should I Worry About...? on BBC One and Total Wipeout, also on BBC One and Richard Hammond's Blast Lab on CBBC. He has also presented several one-off specials such as ITV's The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend and the annual Crufts awards.

In 2006, Hammond suffered a life-threatening crash at speeds of over 280mph (450 km/h) in a jet engine powered dragster racing car. He recovered months later and continued his presenting work.

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