Dimensions
156 x 235 x 14mm
The story of W. H. Davies' twelve years as a hobo. Growing up in
Newport in the 1880s, Davies developed a taste for alcohol and
theatre and an aversion for work. After a six months slumming in
Bristol he travelled to America, aged 22, where he teamed up
with an experienced beggar. They lived like vagrant kings,
begging at doors from women and drinking in the wilds with men.
Now and then they took jobs - gathering hops, building a canal -
but mostly they looked down on people who worked, and avoided
their company. Davies' wanderlust was only curtailed when he
lost his foot trying to jump on a train in Ontario in 1899. He
returned to Britain and concentrated obsessively on becoming a
successful poet. First published in 1908 The Autobiography of a
Super-Tramp has seldom been out of print and is a timeless
classic.
