Bøger af Stephen Richards

The average number of tornados in the USA for the month of April is normally around 135 but in April 2011 there were over 600. It was the worst month for tornados in United States records. On April 27th there were over 190 tornados recorded, the most ever in a single day. The tornado outbreak of April 2011 killed over 350 people, 65 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 27th alone. This was the deadliest tornado outbreak in over 85 years. It was at the beginning of April 2011 that we embarked on our journey with the aim of driving a motorhome around the USA. We planned to complete the tour in three stages the first of which would take us from Florida in the south up the eastern side of America to the Canadian border. We were not to know that we would be travelling the full height of the United States during the worst tornado outbreak on record. This is the true story of that journey.Of course adventure is for the rich and famous but it is for ordinary people too.

'Wild Summer' is the second travel-adventure book by Stephen Richards where he uses his own brand of nostalgia, humour and keen observation.It is the true story of an adventure road-trip around the USA in one year. On this journey, the second of three adventures, a UK couple travel from Chicago to San Francisco, exploring the Yellowstone super-volcano and encountering bears, elk, moose and whales along the way. They travelled west through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean up through Canada's Cascade Mountains and then south, through the giant coastal redwood forests, to San Francisco. 'Wild Summer' tells the trials and tribulations of the voyage.See AmpUrLife.com for more information.

Viv Graham and Lee Duffy led parallel lives as pub and club enforcers, raging their gangland turf wars with a fierce frenzy of brutality and unremitting cruelty. This is a riverting double portrait of two of the North East's most feared men whose bloody rivalry was cut short when they each met horrifically violent ends.