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Byron Rogers

Last Human Cannonball

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Byron Rogers' latest collection of travel pieces follows the winning formula of his first book for Aurum, An Audience with an Elephant: in search of - and finding - a remarkable array of quirky, whimsical and singular individuals. But as well as such characters as the pensioner on a Saga holiday who decided to swim across the Amazon, this book sees for the first time Rogers meeting a number of undeniably famous people: Hollywood stars, legends of children's radio serials he had idolised in childhood - even rock stars like Mick Jagger. But, as one might expect, Rogers' encounters with a celebrity have their own unexpected outcomes. Burt Lancas… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-84513-849-3
  • EAN: 9781845138493
  • Produktnummer: 14843712
  • Verlag: Aurum Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 0 KB

Über den Autor


Byron Rogers is a Welsh journalist, essayist and biographer. He has contributed to The Times, the Sunday Telegraph and the Guardian, and was once a speech writer for the Prince of Wales. He is also author of seven books published by Aurum, including: An Audience With an Elephant, one of several collections of his journalism; The Man Who Went into the West, a critically acclaimed biography of the iconic twentieth century Welsh poet, R. S. Thomas, which was awarded the James Tait Black Prize for Biography in 2007; and The Last Englishman, a biography of the quintessential Englishman and celebrated novelist J.L. Carr. Me: The Authorised Biography, was published in 2009. His most recent book is Three Journeys. He currently lives in Northamptonshire and Carmarthen.

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