An interesting book is Autobiography of a Supertramp by the Welsh writer W.H. Davies, who spent several years in the late 19th century living as a tramp in the U.S. He settled down in England after losing a leg trying to hop on a freight train in Canada, and eventually became successful as a poet. I looked the book up after finding out that the rock group “Supertramp” had used it as the basis for their name. (Not a fan of theirs, just found it an interesting bit of trivia.)
There are things in the book, including some of the author’s attitudes, that are a bit disturbing by current standards, but he never touches on this aspect of life on the road.
An interesting book is Autobiography of a Supertramp by the Welsh writer W.H. Davies, who spent several years in the late 19th century living as a tramp in the U.S. He settled down in England after losing a leg trying to hop on a freight train in Canada, and eventually became successful as a poet. I looked the book up after finding out that the rock group “Supertramp” had used it as the basis for their name. (Not a fan of theirs, just found it an interesting bit of trivia.)
There are things in the book, including some of the author’s attitudes, that are a bit disturbing by current standards, but he never touches on this aspect of life on the road.