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The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain

Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year`I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. It was the road where I might at last find out where I belonged.`Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmother would tell him stories of her childhood in the ancient Romani language; the places her family stopped and worked, the ways they lived, the superstitions and lores of their people. But his own experience of life on the road was limited to Ford Transit journeys from West Sussex to Hampshire to sell flowers.In a bid to better understand his Gypsy heritage, the history of the Britain`s Romanies and the rhythms of their life today, Damian sets out on a journey to discover the atchin tans, or stopping places – the old encampment sites known only to Travellers. Through winter frosts and summer dawns, from horse fairs to Gypsy churches, neon-lit lay-bys to fern-covered banks, Damian lives on the road, somewhere between the romanticised Gypsies of old, and their much-maligned descendants of today.In this powerful and soulful debut, Damian le Bas brings the places, characters and stories of his to bold and vigorous life.

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