If he is to be encouraged and approved, then British morality is a mockery, British respectability an imposture, and British industry a vice. 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. This is an autobiography that describes what it was like to be a tramp in the late 19th century in North America. "Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.ĭescripción Paperback.
As to scandal, I, though a most respectable author, have never written half so proper a book. 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. Davies’ autobiography is not a bit sensational: it might be the Post Office Directory for the matter of that. I hope these expressions will not excite unreasonable expectations of a thrilling realistic romance, or a scandalous chronicle, to follow. 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.
The principal themes in his work are the marvels of nature, observations about life's hardships, his own tramping adventures and the various characters he met.This is an autobiography that describes what it was like to be a tramp in the late 19th century in North America. Davies spent a significant part of his life as a tramp or hobo, in the United Kingdom and United States, but became one of the most popular poets of his time. Davies (1871–1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. A large part of the book's subject matter describes the way of life of the tramp in United Kingdom, Canada and the United States in the final decade of the 19th century.Table of ContentsChildhoodYouthManhoodBrumA Tramp's Summer VacationA Night's RideLaw in AmericaA Prisoner His Own JudgeBerry PickingThe Cattleman's OfficeA Strange CattlemanThievesThe CanalThe House-boatA LynchingThe CampHomeOff AgainA Voice in the DarkHospitalityLondonThe ArkGridlingOn the DownrightThe FarmhouseRain and PovertyFalse HopesOn Tramp AgainA Day's CompanionThe FortuneSome Ways of Making a LivingAt LastSuccessA House to LetW. This carefully crafted ebook: "The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (The life of William Henry Davies)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography first published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W.
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