One of the greatest of all sports books, now reissued with a new introduction.
C L R James, historian, novelist, cultural critic and political activist, was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 1901. In 1932 he joined his friend Learie Constantine in Britain, where he became cricket correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. A central figure in the Pan-African movement and the struggle for colonial emancipation, he returned to Trinidad in 1958 in its run-up to independence. He later went back to London, where he died in 1989.
"Great claims have been made for [Beyond a Boundary] since its
first appearance in 1963: that it is the greatest sports book ever
written; that it brings the outsider a privileged insight into West
Indian culture; that it is a severe examination of the colonial
condition. All are true"
*Sunday Times*
"To say "the best cricket book ever written" is piffingly
inadequate praise. A mental landscape triangulated by literature,
socialism and cricket represents an ideal we should all aspire to,
and this ennobling and beautifully written book should be read by
anyone with the slightest interest in any one of the above"
*Guardian*
"Anyone who has not encountered [Beyond A Boundary] should seize
the chance now"
*Sunday Telegraph*
"Years ago I had presumed, on being repeatedly told that C L R
James' Beyond A Boundary was the finest sports book ever written,
that it was the opposite; in fact, James' erudite tale probably
warrants that label"
*Independent*
"An innovative mixture of autobiography, sports journalism and
political philosophy"
*Daily Telegraph*
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