The Stopping Places - Damian Le Bas

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Résumé :
The co-writer of BBC radio drama on the Romany experience Atching Tan Damian Le Bas embarks on a journey through Gypsy history and across the largely-overlooked Gypsy geography of British space in this report from across the spectrum of contemporary British traveller culture.

Biographie:
Damian Le Bas was born in 1985 into a long line of Gypsies and Travellers. He was raised within a network of relations who taught him how to ride and drive ponies, tractors and trucks, sing melancholy cowboy ballads and speak the thousand-year-old Romani tongue. He was awarded scholarships to study at Christ's Hospital and the University of Oxford. Between 2011 and 2015 he was the editor of Travellers' Times, Britain's only national magazine for Gypsies and Travellers. The Stopping Places is his first book.

Damian lives and works mostly in Kent, with his wife (the actor Candis Nergaard); and Sussex, where he grew up and where his nan - who taught him the old Romany Travellers' little-known routes and ways - both still live.