Everyone Is Entitled To My Opinion
The Autobiography of a London Taxi Driver
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-241-40153-8 (ISBN)
Description
Do you have what it takes to pass one of the most difficult tests in the world? And, did you know that every London black cabbie has to take it? Pre-order the hilariously funny, intrepid account of one man's journey to drive a London black cab.
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25,000 streets, crammed into a six-mile radius.
4 years to take a test on every one.
Could you do it?
David, decides he can, and gets onto his trusty bicycle, puts on his lightweight rain mac and takes-off to the streets of London. Quickly he realises his grave mistake, and while trying to escape kamikaze road-users, hell-bent on his demise, he finds himself trapped on a middle reserve, rain lashing down, his hands frozen to the quivering handle bars. Here he contemplates his future and decides he's going to get himself a moped . . .
David is in pursuit of a career as a London cab driver and here, documented in his diary entries is his undeterred account of one of the toughest tests in the world, The Knowledge.
__________
25,000 streets, crammed into a six-mile radius.
4 years to take a test on every one.
Could you do it?
David, decides he can, and gets onto his trusty bicycle, puts on his lightweight rain mac and takes-off to the streets of London. Quickly he realises his grave mistake, and while trying to escape kamikaze road-users, hell-bent on his demise, he finds himself trapped on a middle reserve, rain lashing down, his hands frozen to the quivering handle bars. Here he contemplates his future and decides he's going to get himself a moped . . .
David is in pursuit of a career as a London cab driver and here, documented in his diary entries is his undeterred account of one of the toughest tests in the world, The Knowledge.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-241-40153-8 (9780241401538)
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David John Styles was born on 9 June 1947 and grew up at the end of the Piccadilly Line, also known as Cockfosters. Growing up in London set David up for a five-year journey to gain the notorious Knowledge and a twenty-three-year-long career as a London black taxi driver.
Turner Prize-winning Grayson Perry once travelled in his cab dressed as an Alice in Wonderland themed potter. He's welcomed the likes of Tony Blair's bronze bust and picked up Love Actually's Bill Nighy.
Turner Prize-winning Grayson Perry once travelled in his cab dressed as an Alice in Wonderland themed potter. He's welcomed the likes of Tony Blair's bronze bust and picked up Love Actually's Bill Nighy.