On the Trail of the Last Human Cannonball

From “a great journalist of the older school,” travel essays chronicling the author’s search for incredible stories about extraordinary people ( The Guardian ). Byron Rogers’ latest collection of travel pieces follows the winning formula of his previous book, An Audience with an Elephant , as he goes in search of a remarkable array of quirky, whimsical, and singular individuals. But in addition to meeting a pensioner on a holiday who decided to swim across the Amazon, this book sees Rogers meeti