We now know all about the world according to Clarkson. In a series of bestselling books including How Hard Can It Be?" & " Round the Bend" Jeremy has revealed it to be a puzzling frustrating place where all too often the lunatics seem to be running the asylum. But in " The Top Gear Years" we get something rather different. Because ten years ago at an ex-RAF aerodrome in Surrey Jeremy & his friends built a world that was rather more to his liking: they called it " Top Gear HQ". & " Top Gear" is for Jeremy what the jungle is for " Tarzan": the perfect place to work & play. But they didn't stop there. With this corner of Surrey sorted out Jeremy & the boys decided to have a crack at the rest of the world. With " Top Gear Live" charging through with the subtlety of a touring heavy rock band & far flung outposts across the globe from North America to China
- an empire of petrol-headed upon which the sun never set. & all along Jeremy was writing about it in " Top Gear" magazine. Here collected between hard covers for the first time are the fruits of his labours: the cars the hijinx the pleasure & the pain. Brilliantly written & laugh out loud funny " The Top Gear Years" is Clarkson at his pithy provocative hilarious best. Praise for Jeremy Clarkson: " Very funny...I cracked up laughing on the tube". (" Evening Standard"). Jeremy Clarkson began his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser. Since then he has written for the " Sun" the " Sunday Times" the " Rochdale Observer" the " Wolverhampton Express & Star" all of the Associated Kent Newspapers & " Lincolnshire Life". Today he is the tallest person working in British television."