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.

Author Biography

One third of BBC's world-conquering TopGear team. In 2007 ON THE EDGE, the account of his near-fatal crash, was the no 1 non-fiction hardback bestseller of the year. He has presented many television programmes and series including Braniac: Science Abuse on Sky 1, Time Commanders, Petrolheads and Richard Hammond Meets Evel Knievel on BBC 2, The Gunpowder Plot, Should I Worry About...? and Richard Hammond and the Holy Grail on BBC1. His Richard Hammond's 5 O'Clock Show was shown every weekday on ITV 1 for 2 months in 2006. He writes a weekly column in The Daily Mirror.