That Near Death Thing: Inside The Most Dangerous Race In The World

Author: Rick Broadbent

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Price : $22.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781409138976
Publisher : Orion Publishing Co
Imprint : Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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Weight (g) : 0.304
Publication date : April 2013
Dimensions : 197mm X 129mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Availability date : July 2013
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THAT NEAR DEATH THING is a life-affirming journey to the heart of the world's most dangerous race. The Isle of Man TT is a throwback to a maverick era that existed before PR platitudes and PC attitudes. WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR-shortlisted author Rick Broadbent gets inside the helmets of four leading motorcycle racers as they battle fear, fire and family tragedy for a gritty sort of glory. Guy Martin is a tea-drinking truck mechanic and TV eccentric who 'sucks the rabbits out of hedges', but must now deal with the flipside of fame; Conor Cummins is the local hero facing a race against time as he battles depression and a broken body after falling down the mountain; John McGuinness is the living legend fending off the ravages of middle-age for one last hurrah; Michael Dunlop is the wild child living with one of the most remarkable legacies in sport. They tell their astonishing stories in a book that provides the most rounded, intimate, behind-the-scences account yet of the last great race. Rick Broadbent has delivered the final word on the Isle of Man TT, one that really gets to grips with an event that continually pulls unsung riders and fans back year after year to witness That Near Death Thing.

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The Isle of Man TT - the world's most dangerous race - as seen through the eyes of Cummins, Martin, McGuinness and Dunlop.

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Rick Broadbent is a sports writer at THE TIMES, and the author of books on boxing and football as well as the MotoGP Motorcycle World Championship. RING OF FIRE was shortlisted for the WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR in 2009.

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The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.