Jun 7, 2018

THE STOPPING PLACES - Damian Le Bas

Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history, but his own experience of life on the road was limited to Ford Transit journeys from West Sussex to Hampshire to sell flowers.

In a bid to better understand his Gypsy heritage, the history of the Britain’s Romanies and the rhythms of their life today, Damian sets out on a journey to discover the atchin tans, or stopping places – the old encampment sites known only to Travellers. Through winter frosts and summer dawns, from horse fairs to Gypsy churches, neon-lit lay-bys to fern-covered banks, Damian lives on the road, somewhere between the romanticised Gypsies of old, and their much-maligned descendants of today.

The jacket features a beloved charm of Romanies; the upturned horseshoe, while the endpapers play on their fondness for all things black and white, such as the piebald cob horse and wagtail bird

Published now in hardback by Chatto & Windus

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