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

Rogers, Byron

ISBN 10: 1854109014 / ISBN 13: 9781854109019

Published by Aurum Pr Ltd, 2003

Seller Inventory # U9781854109019

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.

About the Author: 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: An Audience With an Elephant: And Other ...
Publisher: Aurum Pr Ltd
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: 20137364
Signed: 7/28/2025 10:40:59 AM
Edition: 1753699259.