After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police and reach Canada. A bestseller in 1924, in this vivid piece of outlaw history Jim Tully takes us across the seamy underbelly of pre-WWI America on freight trains, and inside hobo jungles and brothels while narrowly averting the cops. The author chose life on the road over a deadening job, through his teenage years of learning the ropes of the rails and living one meal to the next.
Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography
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Author: Tully, Jim
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781774640890
Details:
Author: Tully, Jim
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 176
Release Date: 13-02-2021
Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.0 x 0.5 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9781774640890
