Richard wrote:
> Jim Tully's BEGGARS OF LIFE is one of the best
accounts of life on the
road.
> A key London book is his THE ROAD (1907). The
collection JACK LONDON ON
THE
> ROAD edited by Richard W. Etulain (Utah State
University Press 1979)
gathers
> together all of London's other Hobo pieces as well
as his tramp diary from
> his 1894 trek across the country.
>
> Also recommended is THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A
SUPER-TRAMP (1917) by William
H.
> Davies ...
>
> I also admire Charles Willeford's I WAS LOOKING FOR
A STREET but I recall
> Mike read this last year and thought it rather
trifling.
*************** I didn't know about London's hobo travels.
Thanks for the heads-up on that. Etulain's London collection
and Tully's BEGGARS sounds good. I think I'll see if I can
find them. I read a little on the net about Tully and it
looks like he was quite a character. If I like them, I'll
look at Davies's SUPER-TRAMP.
And you recall correctly my feeling about Willeford's LOOKING
FOR A STREET. But the only other Willeford I had read was
BURNT ORANGE HERESY, and I was expecting something as
wickedly insightful and eye- opening as this, and I just
didn't find that in his first autobiography.
miker
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