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 ...
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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.
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Add this copy of A Time From the World: Large Print Edition to cart. $15.00, good condition, Sold by Bay Used Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sudbury, ON, CANADA, published 1962 by Ulverscroft.
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Good in Good jacket. Ulverscroft Large Print Series. Good Condition. Ex-Library book with usual stamps and labels. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. Dust Jacket in Good Condition, in a plastic jacket cover, with Moderate wear, small tears, chips and rubbing present. Pictures available upon request.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Green top page edges. Publication of 190 pages. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is little shelf rubbed and small closed tears along the edges. The boards are in good condition. There are minor pen underlining's within the book. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK.
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