An Audience With an Elephant And Other Encounters on the Eccentric Side
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Byron Rogers
Byron Paper Rogers
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- Paperback
- 9781854109019
- 01 april 2003
- 272 pagina's
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An Audience with an Elephant is a compendium of the oddest and most eccentric travels - a travel book to set alongside Norman Lewis or Eric Newby for the sheer unpredictability of its encounters and its surreal comedy. But Byron 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 the strange and distant land of Britain.
On his travels he meets the last Turkish POW in British hands - an ancient tortoise captured at Gallipoli and now resident in Great Yarmouth - and the teenaged elephant who has opened more fetes and supermarkets than any TV celebrity. Here, too, are such bizarre figures as an octogenarian triathlete, the man who (before such things were banned) held every world eating record, and the last hangman in his untroubled retirement. Rogers rides on the 'ghost' train to Stalybridge (which travels but once a week, through closed stations, in one direction only), seeks out long-lost gunpowder factories and a man who fell to earth, and - after recruitment as speech-writer to the Prince of Wales - becomes a courtier. Whether exploring the middle of England in the forgotten county of Northamptonshire or accompanying the last tramp through the wilder reaches of Wales, Byron Rogers chronicles a secret history of Britain that is touching, hilarious, even magical - and the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.
On his travels he meets the last Turkish POW in British hands - an ancient tortoise captured at Gallipoli and now resident in Great Yarmouth - and the teenaged elephant who has opened more fetes and supermarkets than any TV celebrity. Here, too, are such bizarre figures as an octogenarian triathlete, the man who (before such things were banned) held every world eating record, and the last hangman in his untroubled retirement. Rogers rides on the 'ghost' train to Stalybridge (which travels but once a week, through closed stations, in one direction only), seeks out long-lost gunpowder factories and a man who fell to earth, and - after recruitment as speech-writer to the Prince of Wales - becomes a courtier. Whether exploring the middle of England in the forgotten county of Northamptonshire or accompanying the last tramp through the wilder reaches of Wales, Byron Rogers chronicles a secret history of Britain that is touching, hilarious, even magical - and the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.
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