- Jubilee offer: spend £10 or more on any product sold by Amazon.co.uk on or before June 6 and you can buy The Diamond Jubilee A Classical Celebration Album for just £2.50 Here's how (terms and conditions apply)
| ||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Joey Dunlop: His Authorised Biography for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
For motorcycle fans, Joey Dunlop is still akin to royalty. At the 50th anniversary of Honda's arrival at the TT, images of the modest Ulsterman still held pride of place throughout the Isle of Man. In this inspirational book, written in association with the Dunlop family and Honda UK and reissued to mark the tenth anniversary of Joey's death, Mac McDiarmid charts the life of the passionate road racer who competed for the love of the sport, whether at high-profile races or to promote humbler events such as the Estonian one that claimed his life in July 2000.
About the Author
Mac McDiarmid, who witnessed Dunlop's first Isle of Man win in 1977, is a former TT racer and renowned writer about motorcycle racing, specialising in the TT.
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Here we have a fascinating story, lavishly illustrated, and backed up by copious facts and figures. But I am a little tired of this "just-good-enough" style of sportswriting. There must be people who are able to write well and intelligently about bike racing. Shame Haynes couldn't find one. Everybody oohs and aahs over the photos and checks out how good a book looks on the shelf , but it is the text which makes a great book. Five-star pics, three-star content, no stars for style.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
When I read Davison's book I thought " Great photos, but there's a need for a really good, well-written biography of Joey".
There still is. Nice photos though.
Format:Hardcover
I was creating an official website for Joey Dunlop, and Mac McDiarmid's book gave a real insight into Joey's early days with stories from his friends and family. Over 50000 people went to Joey's funeral, such was the popularity of this ordinary guy from Ballymoney. A fascinating read and a must for the bookshelf for fans of real road-racing.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
It's OK
The photo's are great, and the design is OK. The text is very authoritive, however I would have found it more compelling if it had been written in a more objective manner. Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2001 by W. P. Fleming
The best Joey biog, by a distance
Easily the best of the books on your man Joey so far. Most of the rest have been a catalogue of his racing career, but this one shows the man in far more depth. Read more
Published on 21 Jun 2001 by lenniemannion@hotmail.com
A superb tribute to the great man
A book written with obvious fondness for its subject. Sometimes moving, often funny, it captures the spirit of one of sport's most enigmatic figures -- who by all accounts few... Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2001
Good one!
...He's got Bob McMillan of Honda on board, as well as Joey's family behind him, and it reads great! Yeah, and the pics are glorious too. A fitting epitaph for a great racer.
Published on 16 Jun 2001
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
