Edward Thomas tests George Borrow’s own half-fictional account of his life against the letters and journals, asking where truth ends and self-invention begins. He follows Borrow from Norwich boyhood to his journeys with Gypsies, his Bible-selling travels through Spain on a savage Andalusian stallion, and his tours in Wales, reading Lavengro and The Romany Rye along the way.
A biography by one great English writer of the open road about another, written a few years before Thomas was killed at Arras. Download the free EPUB.