The Flying Penguin: More Stories of a Freelance Motorcycling

The Flying Penguin: More Stories of a Freelance Motorcycling Journalist (The Penguin Chronicles Book 2)

The first part of Frank Mellingâ€™s autobiography, â€œA Penguin in a Sparrowâ€™s Nestâ€, proved to be an outstanding commercial and critical success with world-wide sales. It was a #1 best seller in its category on Amazon books.

In â€œThe Flying Penguinâ€, the second part of his memoirs, Frank goes from 1985 until the present day following the same style of ripping, â€œBoys Ownâ€ yarns which take the reader personally through a remarkable and highly eventful life.

There are plenty of near death stories, from almost drowning when trapped under a Honda enduro bike to looking down the business end of a Colt .45 in the backwoods of Missouri. The humour Melling has become so well-known for is everywhere, including how to be an imitation World Champion â€“ when there are free hotel rooms on offer!

On the way there are broken bones, broken bikes and broken relationships â€“ all precariously balanced on the knife-edge of a freelance journalistâ€™s permanent state of insecurity.

Melling also tells the hidden stories behind his phenomenally successful Thundersprint â€“ the biggest motorcycle event of its kind in Europe â€“ and why he eventually brought it to an end.

There are the special challenges, and pleasures, of working with fifteen times World Champion Giacomo Agostini and explaining James Toselandâ€™s impressionist art to very tense and unappreciative Police Officers.

Frank also reveals the close, and sometimes touching, relationship he enjoys with motorcycling legend Jim Redman who, through the Thundersprint, became a family friend.

But â€œThe Flying Penguinâ€ is far more than a book of motorcycling memories. Melling is as much a historian as a journalist and he provides a fascinating, and unique, insight to the last 30 turbulent years of British social history.

You can read free excerpts at www.frankmelling.com

Signed copies are available on request.
Country USA
Manufacturer The Collie Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-08-08
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	The Collie Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-08-08
Format	Kindle eBook

The Flying Penguin: More Stories of a Freelance Motorcycling Journalist (The Penguin Chronicles Book 2)

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