Donald Campbell: 300+ A Speed Odyssey
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- ISBN 9780750970082
- Dimensions: 250 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2016
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Donald Campbell was born into the world of record-breaking, as the only son of the legendary Sir Malcolm Campbell, famous in the inter-war years as the ultimate record breaker with nine land and four water speed records. This richly illustrated book provides a unique insight into the life of Donald Campbell, a brave and intense man obsessed with doing better than his father and flying the flag for Britain as the pioneering nation of speed record breakers and leading-edge designers. With much new and rare material, it reveals the record attempts made with his Bluebirds on land and water, capturing the life-and-death dramas played out against the barren backdrop of Lake Eyre in Australia and the verdant hills surrounding Coniston Water in the English Lake District.
David de Lara is a writer, producer and director who has written widely on, and made TV programmes about, the Campbell family and is involved in the development of a six-part drama on the subject for broadcast television.
