The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp(1908) by: W. H. Davies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530637065)

This is an autobiography that describes what it was like to be a tramp in the late 19th century in North America. From the preface: "I HASTEN to protest at the outset that I have no personal knowledge of the incorrigible Super-tramp who wrote this amazing book. If he is to be encouraged and approved, then British morality is a mockery, British respectability an imposture, and British industry a vice. Perhaps they are: I have always kept an open mind on the subject; but still one may ask some better ground for pitching them out of window than the caprice of a tramp. I hope these expressions will not excite unreasonable expectations of a thrilling realistic romance, or a scandalous chronicle, to follow. Mr. Davies' autobiography is not a bit sensational: it might be the Post Office Directory for the matter of that. A less simple minded supertramp would not have thought it worth writing at all; for it mentions nothing that might not have happened to any of us. As to scandal, I, though a most respectable author, have never written half so proper a book.

Author: W. H. Davies
ISBN-10: 1530637066
ISBN-13: 9781530637065
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/20/2016
Pages: 130
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.28d