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Gypsies : wanderers of the world
- Title
- Gypsies : wanderers of the world / by Bart McDowell ; with illustrations by Bruce Dale ; foreword by an English Gypsy, Clifford Lee ; prepared by the Special Publications Division, National Geographic Society.
- Author
- McDowell, Bart
- Publication
- Washington : National Geographic Society, [1970]
- ©1970
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- Description
- 215 pages : color illustrations, color maps, color portraits; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "I am a Gypsy, born in a caravan. This book tells much about me and my people and about a long journey I made to India, that fabulous land where my forebears originated....All of us, I found, had much the same problem with gorgios - non-Gypsies - who want to force their ways upon us without realizing that we want no such thing, and with self-styled 'experts' who so often portray us either as happy children of nature living on hedgehogs roasted in clay, or as thieves menacing society. I think my friend Bart McDowell has used the best technique: He has let us speak for ourselves. In this book Bart and photographer Bruce Dale, the ubiquitous Bruce, show us as we are. Their record presents Gypsy life in change: Here a motorcar replaces a horse, there a government bans the roving life." -- Foreword, page 5.
- Series Statement
- National geographic special publications
- Uniform Title
- National Geographic special publications
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works
- Pictorial works
- Illustrated works.
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 213) and index.
- Contents
- The 'Outlandysske people' -- Pilgrimage to the sea -- Gypsy violins, Nazi death camps -- 'In summer ... a golden life' -- 'They shy at no audacity' -- 'Long life to everyone' -- Across the Bosporus into Asia -- Cold camps and Gypsy-killer Pass -- The mystery remains intact.
- ISBN
- 0870440888
- 9780870440885
- 870440888 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 70125339
- OCLC
- ocm00104010
- 104010
- SCSB-1847906
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library