<p><I>An Audience with an Elephant</I> 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 singu
An Audience With An Elephant: And Other Encounters On The Eccentric Side
- Publisher
- MBI
- Year
- 2015
- Category
- Fiction
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