Did you know there are over 47,000 facts in the world?* And the good news is, many of them are in this book. That’s right, The Grand Tour A-Z of the Car is the only reference guide you need for cars, driving and all related matters, especially if you’re not too fussed about those facts being accurate.
In this lavishly tooled book you will find a rich and satisfying collection of motor-related informations from the origins of Porsche and the fate of Lada to the dark history of the Wankel engine and the correct name for those weird little hairs on new tyres.
Throughout the book, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are on hand to share their knowledge and wisdom, and then we’ve made the pictures bigger to fill in the gaps around it.
If you want to impress your friends, and then annoy your friends, and then cause your friends to think “Oh God, now they’re telling us about the slightly ironic way in which the founder of MG died” before hurriedly leaving your house, possibly forever, The Grand Tour A-Z of the Car is the book for you.
The Grand Tour A-Z of the Car – literally bursting with facts!**
* Grand Tour estimate ** Not literally

The Grand Tour A-Z of the Car

Engineering & Transportation

James May

jeremy-clarkson

RICHARD HAMMOND

Automotive

Harpercollins

Smart Retail: Practical Winning Ideas and Strategies from the Most Successful Retailers in the World

Pearson Education Limited

All About Physics (Big Questions)

DORLING KINDERSLEY CHILDREN'S

Smart Retail

Pearson International Content

Richard Hammonds Great Mysteries of the World

RICHARD HAMMOND'S GREAT MYSTERIES

The Bodley Head, Ltd.

He 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. He finds an attractive girl, Mindy, who shares his interests and helps him organise his high-speed life. For such a lively and intelligent communicator TV beckons and he becomes one of the daredevil trio, with Jeremy Clarkson and James May, who make such an enormous world-wide 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 300 mph crash that took Top Gear off the air and plunged a nation into mourning. The day of the crash, his rescue and the flight to hospital in a coma are described and then 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. We learn exactly what happened to him and the milestones in his slow recovery to full health. The final chapter recounts the return to Top Gear and the screening of the events of that fateful day.

On the Edge

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Orion Publishing

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.

As You Do

Can You Feel the Force is a great tool for helping your child understand physics. Put the fizz back into physics!

Can You Feel the Force?

DK Publishing

Car Science - An Under-the-hood, Behind-the-dash Look At How Cars Work

Turn your home into a science lab...and get ready for a hands-on, explosive (but safe) learning experience! Young scientists will be thrilled to build mini-rockets or mix up gross green goo. With no need for expensive chemicals or complicated contraptions, Blast Lab uses everyday items and ingredients in incredible ways to show kids how science really works. Each experiment uses easy-to-understand photos to explain each step of the investigative process, and includes fun science facts to take learning to the next level. Contains 96 color illustrated pages.

Blast Lab

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

DK Scholastic

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