<DIV>This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic <I>Beyond a Boundary</I> celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written.</p><P>Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by <I>Sports Illustrated<BR></I><BR>"<I>Beyond a Boundary</I> . . . should find its place on the team with Izaak Walton, Ivan Turgenev, A. J. Liebling, and Ernest Hemingway."—<B>Derek Walcott</B>, <I>The New York Times Book Review<BR></I><BR>"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, <I>Beyond a Boundary</I> (1963), James devoted some of his finest pages to this theme."—<B>Edward Said</B>, <I>The Washington Post<BR></I><BR>"A work of double reverence—for the resilient, elegant ritualism of cricket and for the black people of the world."—<B>Whitney Balliett</B>, <I>The New Yorker<BR></I><BR>"<I>Beyond a Boundary</I> is<I> </I>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."—<B>Mark Naison</B>, <I>The Nation<BR></I><BR>"Everything James has done has had the mark of originality, of his own flexible, sensitive, and deeply cultured intelligence. He conveys not a rigid doctrine but a delight and curiosity in all the manifestations of life, and the clue to everything lies in his proper appreciation of the game of cricket."—<B>E. P. Thompson</B>, author of <I>The Making of the English Working Class<BR></I><BR>"<I>Beyond a Boundary</I> is . . . first and foremost an autobiography of a living legend—probably the greatest social theorist of our times."—<B>Manning Marable</B>, <I>Journal of Sport & Social Issues<BR></I><BR>"The great triumph of <I>Beyond a Boundary</I> is its ability to rise above genre and in its very form explore the complex nature of colonial West Indian society."—<B>Caryl Phillips</B>, <I>The New Republic</I></div>