Damian Le Bas: The Stopping Places
The Stopping Places
Buch
- A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
- Vintage Publishing, 05/2019
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- ISBN-13: 9781784704131
- Bestellnummer: 8938851
- Umfang: 320 Seiten
- Gewicht: 364 g
- Maße: 198 x 129 mm
- Stärke: 26 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 2.5.2019
Klappentext
Damian Le Bas was born in 1985 into a long line of Gypsies and Travellers. He was raised within a network of relations who taught him how to ride and drive ponies, tractors and trucks, sing melancholy cowboy ballads and speak the thousand-year-old Romani tongue. He was awarded scholarships to study at Christ s Hospital and the University of Oxford. Between 2011 and 2015 he was the editor of Travellers Times, Britain s only national magazine for Gypsies and Travellers. The Stopping Places is his first book.Damian lives and works mostly in Kent, with his wife (the actor Candis Nergaard); and Sussex, where he grew up and where his nan who taught him the old Romany Travellers little-known routes and ways both still live.
Damian Le Bas
The Stopping Places
EUR 12,96*