Australian Gypsies

Sydney: NewSouth / University of New South Wales Press, 2017. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour & sepia (brown-tinted) & black & white photos centre spread, minor edgewear. 299 pp. In this fascinating book Mandy Sayer puts together a vivid, wide-ranging history that begins at the start of the Romani culture, tracing the first Gypsy people to arrive in… Read more about this item

NewSouth Publishing, 2017. Softcover. Very Good +. AUSTRALIANASince the arrival of the First Fleet there have been Gypsies in Australia, yet their experiences have never been included in any official histories. In Australian Gypsies, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a vivid, wide-ranging history that begins with the roots of the Romani culture, tracing the first… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New. Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet their experiences have never been included in any official histories of the country. In this volume, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a wide-ranging history of Gypsies in Australia. Given their blessing to tell their stories, Sayer also demolishes some longstanding but baseless myths… Read more about this item

ReadHowYouWant, December 2017. Trade Paperback. Used - very good.

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Newsouth, Sydney 2017. 23.0 x 15.0cms, 300pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good+ paperback & cover This chronology engages with the Gypsies' shelter. laws & customs; work; the Atchintan of the Central Coast; marriage & birth; food; death & funeral rites; clothing & appearance; language; music, on the road.