Lavengro: The Classic Account of Gypsy Life in Nineteenth-Century England - George Borrow - Paperback - DOVER UNABRIDGED EDITION | Rent 9780486269153

by Borrow, George Henry

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ISBN-13: 9780486269153
ISBN: 0486269159
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated

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Borrow, George Henry

SUMMARY

Gypsies appeared in Europe in great numbers in the 15th century. The term "Gypsy" evolved from their claim that they were Egyptian by descent. (It is now believed these itinerant Caucasoid peoples originated in India.) Who they were, what they were like, and how they lived in England are the focal points of George Borrow's 19th-century literary and anthropological classic LAVENGRO.Borrow, George Henry is the author of 'Lavengro: The Classic Account of Gypsy Life in Nineteenth-Century England - George Borrow - Paperback - DOVER UNABRIDGED EDITION' with ISBN 9780486269153 and ISBN 0486269159.

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