I Know You Got Soul: Machines with That Certain Something

Jeremy Clarkson  (автор)

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'Clarkson's mighty mean machines'
Daily Express

It will come as no surprise to anyone that Jeremy Clarkson loves machines. But it's not just any old bucket of bolts, cogs and bearings that rings his bell. In fact, he's scoured the length and breadth of the land, plunged into oceans and taken to the skies in search of machines with that elusive certain something.

And along the way he's discovered:

• The safest place to be in the event of nuclear war
• Who would win if Superman, James Bond and The Terminator had a fight
• The stupidest person he's ever met
• What an old Cornish institution called Arthur has to do with 0898 chat lines
• And how Jean-Claude Van Damme might get eaten by a lion

In I KnowYou Got Soul, Jeremy Clarkson tells the stories of the geniuses, innovators and crackpots who put the ghost in the machine. From Brunei's SS Great Britain to the awesome Blackbird spy-plane and from the woeful - but inspiring - Graf Zeppelin to Han Solo's Millennium Falcon, they were built by people who love them. And we can't help but love them in return.

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About the Author

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 and Star, all of the Associated Kent Newspapers, and Lincolnshire Life. Today he is the tallest person working in British tele­vision.

Jeremy Clarkson's other books are Clarkson's Hot 100, Clarkson on Cars, Motonvorld, Planet Dagenham, The World According to Clarkson, I Know You Got Soul and And Another Tiling: The World According to Clarkson Volume 2.

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Contents


Introduction ix

Concorde 1
Rolls-Royce 17
Riva 26

Millennium Falcon 35
Flying Boat 43
SS Great Britain 55

Arthur 76
747 86
AK47 99

Zeppelin 107
Flying Scotsman 118
B-52 125

Hoover Dam 138
Aircraft Carrier 151
Alfa Romeo 166 162

Blackbird 167
Submarine 177
Space Shuttle 187

GT40 198
Yamato 204
Spitfire 222

Picture Credits 234

Index 235