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The Heroic Present: LIFE AMONG THE GYPSIES
by
Jan Yoors,
Ian Hancock
As a boy of twelve, Jan Yoors fulfilled many an adventurous youth's fantasy when he left his comfortable Belgian home to live and travel with a tribe, or kumpania, of Gypsies. Adopted into the extended family of Pulika, Yoors passed his days with the patriarch's sons and nephews, learning the traditions and participating in the rituals of the Gypsies, or Romani. As the yea...more
Hardcover, 160 pages
Published
October 21st 2004
by Monacelli
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I read this book a number of years ago, and its sequel as well. It is a fair, honest and sensitive portrayal of these unique people told from one who lived among them. How his parents allowed him to go off and join the gypsies when so very young, and in what manner he was able to cause the Rom to accept him as one of their own is remarkable. I shall not forget his descriptions of the ways in which they lived in such communion with nature, and the portrayal of the sights and sounds of gypsy li...more
A beautiful version of Yoors' "Gypsies," an account of his life with the Rom. He left home, on a whim, really, at age 12 with a Romany caravan and lived with them off and on until the advent of the Nazis. He spent large parts of the rest of his life finding and documenting Romany life all over Europe and into India and in America.
and he was a wonderful observer. What I hadn't known is that he also took photographs--this version takes key excerpts from "Gypsies" a...more
and he was a wonderful observer. What I hadn't known is that he also took photographs--this version takes key excerpts from "Gypsies" a...more
SO GREAT TO SEE PICTURES OF ALL THESE PEOPLE YOU COME TO KNOW IN HIS BOOKS.
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