A Time from the World - Couverture souple

Farre, Rowena; Griffiths, Jay

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908213205 ISBN 13 : 9781908213204

Editeur : Little Toller Books, 2013

Synopsis

Rowena Farre led a double life while studying art in London as a young woman. For months on end she would disappear to Scotland or the English-Welsh borderlands, where she lived as part of a Gypsy community. Here she met different kinds of travellers - tramps and mumpers, tinkers and didikais, and the enigmatic Romanies - all living on the fringes of society. She found it an uncertain existence of hard work and modest means, fruit-picking, labouring on farms, hawking goods from village to village. But she also found a life of rewarding friendships, unusual freedom, and even love. Written by a woman who refused to acknowledge the social divisions that keep us apart, A Time From the World is an intimate account of a nomadic culture that is repeatedly sensationalised, glamourised, demonised, and just plain misunderstood. Rowena Farre was a remarkable woman, a traveller in the truest sense, whose life was driven by an enduring curiosity in her fellow human beings.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little Toller Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908213205
• ISBN 13: 9781908213204
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Pattullo Alice
• Nombre de pages: 189
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible