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#1 JohnH

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Posted 01 November 2014 - 19:41

He's sitting next to my buddy in Austin so I've asked him to get an answer this weekend. I cannot find anything about this book anywhere other than one ad I saw in a mag, that I don't have with me and one tweet about the launch in Sept. I've googled it before with no results. Any info ?

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#2 Vitesse2

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Posted 01 November 2014 - 20:02

It's called Emmo: A Racer's Soul. Review by TNFer Colbul1:

 

http://forums.autosp...57#entry6897276

 

The Amazon UK link in that post seems to be the only place you can buy it from.

 

It's listed on Amazon US, but they're showing it as out of print!



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Posted 01 November 2014 - 20:04

I think it's a limited print run, something like 2,000.  So get yer skates on.



#4 JohnH

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Posted 01 November 2014 - 20:19

Thanks very much. Darn only 144 pages for a multi decade book. Sounds kind of disappointing. Reading Revson's book again, that's more like it, the ones on Mears and Andretti also set the standard, was hoping for something like them. Gurney is supposedly working on one, hoping it also is good.

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#5 ensign14

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Posted 01 November 2014 - 20:22

There's the Elizabeth Hayward one that's more in those veins.  But of course only takes the story up to about 1973.  This one is more a reflective piece than a blow-by-blow account.



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Posted 01 November 2014 - 20:56

He's sitting next to my buddy in Austin so I've asked him to get an answer this weekend. I cannot find anything about this book anywhere other than one ad I saw in a mag, that I don't have with me and one tweet about the launch in Sept. I've googled it before with no results. Any info ?

available again (it was UNavailable for a time)

http://www.amazon.co...1&keywords=emmo

Published by F1 Magazine , if I recall right...But I never could find it at the haymarket page....

 

Michael



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Posted 02 November 2014 - 05:16

Thanks very much. Darn only 144 pages for a multi decade book. Sounds kind of disappointing. Reading Revson's book again, that's more like it, the ones on Mears and Andretti also set the standard, was hoping for something like them. Gurney is supposedly working on one, hoping it also is good.

This reviewer voiced a similar criticism - It does not sound like an in-depth autobiography:

http://www.amazon.co...t#RJMQR4HZJP27W