The Gypsy in Me

The Gypsy in Me
Author: Ted Simon
Publsiher: Jupitalia
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780679441380

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Insightful, humorous and often moving, Simon recounts his 1,500-mile journey, much of it on foot, between his mother's origins in Germany and his father's roots in Romania. He enjoys a very personal entrée into the lives of those around him and learns unexpected lessons about his physical limitations. He makes surprising discoveries about his unknown father and, at the same time, attempts to grasp the reasons for the bitter conflict in Bosnia which is still raging on the edge of his trajectory.

The Gypsy in Me

The Gypsy in Me
Author: Gypsy Boots,Mike Arthur,Jerry Hopkins
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 102
Release: 1993-12-01
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0964064006

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Bury Me Standing

Bury Me Standing
Author: Isabel Fonseca
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2011-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780307761040

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A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture. Fabled, feared, romanticized, and reviled, the Gypsies—or Roma—are among the least understood people on earth. Their culture remains largely obscure, but in Isabel Fonseca they have found an eloquent witness. In Bury Me Standing, alongside unforgettable portraits of individuals—the poet, the politician, the child prostitute—Fonseca offers sharp insights into the humor, language, wisdom, and taboos of the Roma. She traces their exodus out of India 1,000 years ago and their astonishing history of persecution: enslaved by the princes of medieval Romania; massacred by the Nazis; forcibly assimilated by the communist regimes; evicted from their settlements in Eastern Europe, and most recently, in Western Europe as well. Whether as handy scapegoats or figments of the romantic imagination, the Gypsies have always been with us—but never before have they been brought so vividly to life. Includes fifty black and white photos.

The Gypsy King

The Gypsy King
Author: Maureen Fergus
Publsiher: Penguin Canada
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2013-01-22
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9780143188315

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A runaway slave with a shadowy past, sixteen-year-old Persephone has spent four long years toiling beneath the leering gaze of her despised owner and dreaming of a life where she is free to shape her own destiny. Then, one night, a chance encounter with a handsome chicken thief named Azriel changes her life forever. Sold to him for a small bag of gold coins, Persephone soon discovers what she already suspected: namely, that Azriel is not what he seems. And when she realizes that he believes Persephone has a special destiny—she is determined to escape him and his impossibly broad shoulders. But things are no longer as simple as they once were. Torn between her longing for freedom and her undeniable feelings for the handsome thief with the fast hands and the slow smile, Persephone faces the hardest choice she will ever have to make. And no one—least of all her—could have imagined the shocking truth her decision will reveal.

Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society

Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society
Author: Gypsy Lore Society
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1891
Genre: Romanies
ISBN: PRNC:32101032308312

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The Gypsy s Curse

The Gypsy s Curse
Author: Sara Whitford
Publsiher: Seaport Publishing
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-09-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780986325267

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In the fourth installment in the Adam Fletcher Adventure Series, a gypsy family sets up camp on the edge of town peddling tinctures, potions, magic, and fortunetelling. And like a moth to a flame, Adam Fletcher is drawn there. He decides to pay the mysterious Madame Endora a visit, just for fun — or so he thinks. Soon after, a series of worrisome circumstances begin to unfold, one after the other, sending the sleepy port town of Beaufort into a hysterical frenzy. Is there really a curse, or is something more sinister to blame?

The Gypsy s Parson

The Gypsy s Parson
Author: George Hall
Publsiher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2020-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9783752395570

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Reproduction of the original: The Gypsy's Parson by George Hall

The Gypsy s Parson His Experiences and Adventures

The Gypsy s Parson  His Experiences and Adventures
Author: George Hall
Publsiher: Library of Alexandria
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9781465611680

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A TANGLE of sequestered streets lying around a triple-towered cathedral; red roofs and gables massed under the ramparts of an ancient castle; a grey Roman arch lit up every spring-time by the wallflower’s mimic gold; an old-world Bailgate over whose tavern yards drifted the sleepy music of the minster chimes; a crooked by-lane leading down to a wide common loved by the winds of heaven—these were the surroundings of my childhood’s home in that hilltop portion of Lincoln which has never quite thrown off its medieval drowsiness. Not far from my father’s doorstep, as you looked towards the common, lay a narrow court lined with poor tenements, and terminating in a bare yard bounded by a squat wall. Every detail of this alley stands out in my memory with the sharpness of a photograph; the cramped perspective of the place as you entered it from our lane, the dreary-looking houses with their mud-floored living-rooms fronting upon the roadway, the paintless doors and windows, the blackened chimneys showing rakish against the sky, all combined to make a picture of dun-coloured misery. There were, it is true, a few redeeming features gilding the prevailing drabness of the scene. The entrance to the court had a southerly outlook upon green fields stretching up to the verge of the Castle Dyking, or, to revive its more gruesome name, “Hangman’s Ditch,” so called from the grim associations of a bygone day. From these fields a clean air blew through the court, rendering it a less unwholesome haunt for the strange folk who dwelt within its precincts; while not half a mile distant lay the breezy common, a glorious playground for the children of Upper Lincoln.