copyright 1970; National Geographic Society; hardbound; very good condition; no dust jacket.
 
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"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.