Rabbit Stew And A Penny Or Two: A Gypsy Family's Hard and Happy Times on the Road in the 1950s - Brossura

Smith-Bendell, Maggie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0349123616 ISBN 13: 9780349123615

Casa editrice: Abacus, 2010

Riassunto

Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941, the second of eight children in a Romani family, Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling community's long history. As a child, Maggie rode and slept in a horse-drawn wagon, picked hops and flowers, and sat beside her father's campfire on ancient verges, poor but free to roam. As the twentieth century progressed, common land was fenced off and the traditional ways disappeared. Eventually Maggie married a house-dweller and tried to settle for bricks and mortar, but she never lost the restless spirit, the deep love of the land and the gift for storytelling that were her Romani inheritance.

Maggie's story is one of hardship and prejudice, but also, unforgettably, it recalls the glories of the travelling life, in the absolute safety of a loyal and loving family.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

* An enchanting and utterly absorbing memoir of a forgotten way of life
* Previously published as Our Forgotten Years

L'autore:

Maggie Smith-Bendell runs an advisory service for Gypsies and Travellers, and campaigns for the rights of Gypsies.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Abacus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0349123616
• ISBN 13: 9780349123615
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320