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Jessie's journey : autobiography of a traveller girl / Jess Smith.

by Smith, Jess, 1948-

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Smith, Jess, 1948- -- Childhood and youth.

Scottish Travellers (Nomadic people) -- Biography.

Scottish Travellers (Nomadic people) -- Folklore.

Scotland -- Social life and customs.

9781841587028 (pbk.)

1841587028 (pbk.)

x, 245 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.

Sequel is: Tales from the tent : Jessie's journey continues.

First published: Edinburgh : Mercat Press, 2002.

"She is the proud inheritor of a long gypsy tradition. Her mother was born in a tent, and her aunts and uncles were described on official forms as tinkers, hawkers and itinerants. She herself lived from the ages of 5 to 15 with her parents, sisters and a mongrel dog, in an old blue Bedford bus. They travelled the length and breadth of Scotland, and much of England too, stopping here and there until moved on by the local authorities, or driven by their own instinctive need to travel. By campfires under the unchanging stars they brewed up tea, telling stories and singing songs late into the night. Jessie's story describes what it was like to be one of the last of the traditional travelling folk. It is not an idyllic tale: her way of life was outside the margins of respectable society, and that society could be harsh to travellers."--Provided by publisher.

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