Jessie's Journey: The True Story of a Gypsy Childhood

A "remarkable" account of a family's years wandering Scotland and England in a bus, living the traditional life of their people (Caledonia).

From the ages of five to fifteen, Jess Smith lived with her parents and sisters and a mongrel dog in an old blue bus. They traveled the length and breadth of Scotland, and much of England too, stopping here and there until they were moved on by the local authorities or driven by their own instinctive need to travel. By campfires, under the unchanging...