Super-Tramp - the original
16/07/12 16:07 - Filed under : books
W H Davies travels accross the USA and Canada – the tramp-poet from Newport describes the people he meets, the places he visits as well as that unfortunate incident in Renfrew, Ontario.
George Bernard Shaw wrote the books preface and it opens with –
“I hasten to protest at the outset that I have no personal knowledge of the incorrigible super-tramp who wrote this amazing book.”
He was introduced to Davies’s writing when he received a volume of poems through the post and was later instrumental in bringing his work to the attention of critics and publishers. At the time he wasn’t aware that Davies was a tramp living in a London dosshouse.
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is available as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu – go to the The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp page for further information.