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Engels20109780571274772
9-12-2010
An autobiography of Alan Ross deals with his postwar life as cricket correspondent, publisher, man of letters and racehorse owner. Meer
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Engels20129780571295937
21-6-2012
Ross was a war hero, poet, bon viveur, travel writer, incorrigible gossip, racehorse owner and brilliant magazine editor.' Richard Whitehead, ObserverAustralia 63 offers Ross's account of an Ashes series that pitted the England XI led by Ted Dexter against Richie Benaud's host side. Meer
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Engels20129780571296040
19-7-2012
'To describe Alan Ross as a polymath does scant justice to the eclecticism of an extraordinary man . Meer
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Engels20129780571296057
19-7-2012
The author - distinguished poet, travel writer, and editor of "London Magazine" - also managed to excel in the role of cricket correspondent for the "Observer", in which capacity he followed England/MCC on tours of Australia, South Africa and the West Indies. Meer
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Engels20129780571296149
15-11-2012
Even against a home side boasting Hall and Watson, Worrell, Sobers and Ramadhin, the visitors - fuelled by the bowling of Trueman and Statham and a batting order including Dexter, Barrington and Subba Row - emerged triumphant over five tests. Meer
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Engels20139780571296507
18-4-2013
Ross was a war hero, poet, bon viveur, travel writer, incorrigible gossip, racehorse owner and brilliant magazine editor.' Richard Whitehead, Observer'This is Alan Ross's fourth volume of autobiography (following on from Blindfold Games, Coastwise Lights, and After Pusan). Meer
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Engels20109780571269921
20-5-2010
'To describe Alan Ross as a polymath does scant justice to the eclecticism of an extraordinary man . Meer
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Engels20109780571260409
18-3-2010
'To describe Alan Ross as a polymath does scant justice to the eclecticism of an extraordinary man . Meer
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Engels20129780571296163
15-11-2012
Offers a deft and deceptively airy set of literary wanderings through a part of the Mediterranean - the islands of the south-western coast of Italy - the author had known since being demobilised from the Royal Navy at the end of the Second World War. Meer
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Engels20129780571296316
15-11-2012
'To describe Alan Ross as a polymath does scant justice to the eclecticism of an extraordinary man . Ross was a war hero, poet, bon viveur, travel writer, incorrigible gossip, racehorse owner and brilliant magazine editor. Meer
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Engels20139780571296422
17-1-2013
Inspired by the author's visit in 1986 to the South Korean coastal city of Pusan, this title gracefully entwines poetry and prose. It opens with a thirty-page prose memoir of the author's visit that is economically and self-effacingly told, deft in its detail and tireless in its curiosity. Meer
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Engels20139780571305186
20-6-2013
An account of a summer journey in the early 1950s. It presents the author's descriptions of the landscape and local customs and more (including billiards, 'one of the great Sardinian occupations') that are interspersed with tales of a cast of characters who might have come out of Boccaccio, adding up to a memorable evocation. Meer