![]() ![]() ![]() “ Beyond a Boundary is a book of remarkable richness and force, which vastly expands our understanding of sports as an element of popular culture in the Western and colonial world.”- Mark Naison, The Nation “A work of double reverence-for the resilient, elegant ritualism of cricket and for the black people of the world.”- Whitney Balliett, The New Yorker his scintillating memoir of his life in cricket, Beyond a Boundary (1963), James devoted some of his finest pages to this theme.”- Edward Said, The Washington Post “As a player, James the writer was able to see in cricket a metaphor for art and politics, the collective experience providing a focus for group effort and individual performance. Liebling, and Ernest Hemingway.”- Derek Walcott, The New York Times Book Review should find its place on the team with Izaak Walton, Ivan Turgenev, A. ![]() Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by Sports Illustrated James’s classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written. ![]()
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