An Audience With an Elephant: And Other Encounters on the Eccentric Side - Couverture souple

Rogers, Byron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1854109014 ISBN 13 : 9781854109019

Editeur : Aurum Press, 2003

Synopsis

"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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aurum Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1854109014
• ISBN 13: 9781854109019
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible