An Audience with an Elephant by Byron Rogers
"An Audience with an Elephant" should appeal to any travel writing fan who has enjoyed Tony Hawks' quest to play tennis with the Moldovans and Pete McCarthy's bar - but here is no manufactured, factitious wackiness: rather a quest for genuine, magnificent eccentricity - and all without ever leaving Britain. Rogers' travels take him to Great Yarmouth, to find the only giant tortoise that is also a living veteran of Gallipoli; to Stalybridge (to travel on the "ghost" railway train that runs in one direction only); and even to Buckingham Palace, on an out-of-the-blue commission to write speeches for the Prince of Wales. This is a book about the sheer idiosyncratic oddity of Britain: 80-year-old triathletes; compulsive exam-takers; the last tramp in Wales; and other unusual encounters.
'Very funny but also beautiful and moving' - Daily Express; 'A wonderful writer: droll, poignant and dreamy.. brilliant' - New Statesman; 'Possibly the funniest, most charming and beautifully written book I've read in years... This quirky collection will become a classic' - Western Mail
Byron Rogers was born in Carmarthen in Wales. In October 2002 Aurum publish The Green Lane to Nowhere, a collection of pieces on the life of a village in the middle of England. He writes for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Guardian and Saga magazine, and divides his time between Northamptonshire and mid-Wales.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781854109019 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854109014 |
| Title | An Audience with an Elephant |
| Author | Byron Rogers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2003-04-24 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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