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  • ON THE TRAIL OF THE LAST HUMAN CANNONBALL
    BYRON ROGERS
    From "a great journalist of the older school," travel essays chronicling the author's search for incredible stories about extraordinary people ( The Guardian). Byron Rogers' latest collection of travel pieces follows the winning formula of his previous book, An Audience with an Elephant, as he goes in search of a remarkable array of quirky, whimsical, and singular individuals. ...

    $200.00

  • THE LAST ENGLISHMAN
    BYRON ROGERS
    A biography of the English educator, dictionary writer, and celebrated author of A Month in the Country. J.L. Carr was the most English of Englishmen: headmaster of a Northamptonshire school, cricket enthusiast and campaigner for the conservation of country churches. But he was also the author of half a dozen utterly unique novels, including his masterpiece, A Month in the Coun...

    $251.00

  • THE MAN WHO WENT INTO THE WEST
    BYRON ROGERS
    The award-winning life story of Wales national poet and vicar R.S. Thomas is "a biography touched by genius." (Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday) R.S. Thomas is widely considered as one of the twentieth-century's greatest English language poets. His bitter yet beautiful collections on Wales, its landscape, people and identity, reflect a life of political and spiritual asceticism. Ind...

    $119.00

  • AN AUDIENCE WITH AN ELEPHANT
    BYRON ROGERS
    An Audience with an Elephant is a compendium of the oddest and most eccentric travels—a travel book to set alongside Norman Lewis and Eric Newby for the sheer unpredictability of its encounters and its surreal comedy. But Bryon Rogers didn't venture to the ends of the earth to find singular custom and heroic idiosyncrasy: he had no need to. These are journeys to the heart of th...

    $179.00