This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written. Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by Sports Illustrated 'Beyond a Boundary . . . should find its place on the team with Izaak Walton, Ivan Turgenev, A. J. Liebling, and Ernest Hemingway.'-Derek Walcott, The New York Times Book Review '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. . . . [In] 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 '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 'Beyond a Boundary is a book of remarkable richness and force, which vastly expands
