Part memoir, part novel, the narrative follows a soldier’s son through boyhood in England, Scotland and Ireland and into young manhood. Hungry for languages, he learns Romany from the Gypsy Jasper Petulengro, talks trade with a London Armenian, drudges for booksellers and finally takes to the road among tinkers, horse-dealers and fighting men.
Introduced here by Augustine Birrell, Borrow’s 1851 book remains the great English classic of the road and the Romany camp. Download the free EPUB.