The Heroic Present: Life Among the Gypsies by Jan Yoors

The Heroic Present: Life Among the Gypsies

Jan Yoors with Ian Hancock

160 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative reflective medium-paced

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As a boy of twelve, Jan Yoors fulfilled many an adventurous youth's fantasy when he left his comfortable Belgian home to live and travel with a tribe, or kumpania, of Gypsies. Adopted into the extended family of Pulika, Yoors passed his days with ...

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