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A Short History of Caravans in the UK
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List Price: £12.99
Our Price: £7.94
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.2260941
EAN: 9780297844464
Feature: New
ISBN: 0297844466
Label: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Manufacturer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2009-05-28
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Studio: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Editorial Reviews:
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TOP GEAR host on learning to love your caravan - includes advice on how to blow it up when you are finished with it.
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Summary: Not very funny and not much history
Comment: Once we have been told several times that horses fart and that Richard Hammond likes to blow up caravans, that's about the end of the jokes and there's little real history beyond the story that Dr William Gordon Staples built the first proper caravan. The book is full of inaccuracies (corner steadies are not for levelling a caravan on bumpy ground - the clue is in the name) and stale old clichés (on-board toilets have been of the hygienic cassette type for well over 20 years).
There are thousands of really funny caravan stories and jokes, but they are usually written by people who know something about caravanning, and they are not in this book. In my opinion the book just too annoying to appeal to the caravanner, and it's not funny enough to appeal to non-caravanners. The only readers who will really enjoy it are those who are fans of Richard's special sense of humour (big bangs and crashing cars). I have given it 2 stars because it is more amusing than watching an episode of Eastenders.
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Summary: great
Comment: Very interesting and humorous book. Very funny in parts but a good history about caravans too.
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Summary: A short history of caravaning
Comment: I bought this book for one of my friends who used to be absolutely obsessed with Richard Hammond before she recieved the book she watched Twilight with Robert pattinson in and then became obsessed with Edward Cullen. However, after reading this book she soon turned back to Richard Hammond after she realised that he was a real-life and not just a fictional character and ahe loved the content of the book too. It is interesting for anyone and not just for those who enjoy caravanning because it is a funny side of caravanning and is enjoyable for anyone to read and i would definately recommend it xD
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Summary: Not worth reading
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Can Richard Hammond possibly get any better?!
Comment: 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.
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