Alan Ross: 31 books
Winter Sea
War, Journeys, Writers
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
'This is Alan Ross's fourth volume of autobiography (following on from Blindfold Games, Coastwise Lights, and After Pusan)... Winter Sea, like his previous volumes, is an intriguing mix of memoir, poetry, and travel writing.' PN Review
'Fragmentary and delightfully idiosyncratic... [Winter...
The Bandit on the Billiard Table
A Journey through Sardinia
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
First published in 1954 as South to Sardinia, this account of a summer journey in the early 1950s sees Alan Ross alternating the past and present of a strange island whose interior, especially, had been only rarely visited at that point. His descriptions of the landscape and local customs and mores...
by Alan Ross
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
After Pusan, first published in 1995, is the third panel (alongside Blindfold Games and Coastwise Lights, also in Faber Finds) of a triptych of memoirs by Alan Ross. Inspired by Ross's visit in 1986 to the South Korean coastal city of Pusan, like its predecessors it gracefully entwines poetry and...
Australia 55
A Journal of the MCC Tour
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Alan Ross (1922-2001) - 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. In the book-length accounts he...
Through the Caribbean
The MCC Tour of the West Indies, 1959–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
In 1960, against most predictions, the England cricket team won their first ever series in the West Indies. 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...
Reflections on Blue Water
Journeys in the Gulf of Naples and in the Aeolian Islands
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
'This valedictory volume is the quintessence of [Alan] Ross, a deft and deceptively airy set of literary wanderings through a part of the Mediterranean - the islands of the south-western coast of Italy - he had known since being demobilised from the Royal Navy at the end of the Second World War......
Barn Find Road Trip
3 Guys, 14 Days and 1000 Lost Collector Cars Discovered
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Great collector cars are still out there--just waiting to be found! Sadly, there is very little reality in reality TV. That wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that these shows are the only TV shows for the barn-find collector car aficionado. Barn Find Road Trip is the antidote to all the manufactured...
by Alan Ross
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Alan Ross (1922-2001) - 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. In the book-length accounts he...
by Alan Ross
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Alan Ross (1922-2001) - 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. In the book-length accounts he...
by Alan Ross
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
Never before has there been a book with the power to dispel the archaic superstitions of the Bible and replace them with truth, logic and natural law from the Master himself. Received through the mediumship of the Washington, DC lawyer, James E. Padgett by automatic writing this engaging story is...
Motor City Barn Finds
Detroit's Lost Collector Cars
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Tom Cotter returns to troll through Detroit and discover long forgotten classics in Motor City Barn Finds. You won't believe some of the rides he finds.
Detroit has been America's Motor City for decades. It's home to Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler, as well as numerous auto industry companies...
Route 66 Barn Find Road Trip
Lost Collector Cars Along the Mother Road
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Abandoned cars on America's most iconic abandoned road. Sounds like a great idea for a road trip. For a nation that loves the idea of the road, there is no more legendary ribbon of highway than the 2,451 miles comprising historic Route 66. Along the Mother Road lies the detritus of the automotive...
Ranji
Prince of Cricketers
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Indian prince, Sussex and England cricketer, K.S. Ranjitsinhji was unique in many ways. W.G. Grace predicted that there would not be another batsman like 'Ranji' for a hundred years; arguably we are still waiting. His prodigious run-scoring ability alone assured his place in the annals of cricket,...
by Alan Ross
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Every so often a Test match offers such high drama as to transcend the series of which it was part. Such a battle was the second Test between England and West Indies at Lord's in June 1963. Wisden called it one of the most dramatic played in England. Alan Ross's eyewitness account amply evokes its...