![]() ![]() Of course, after years trekking across the US, Davies got to know much of the national characteristic here he is reflecting. Davies mails the missive home-only he’s still in Liverpool and has yet to see the New World, let alone the open sea. In one of the funnier moments in the book, Davies describes writing a letter comparing America to England. A restless spirit with a hankering for adventure, Davies has trouble attaining steady work he’s a bit of a romantic, always stuck in a book. He’s caught, tried, and beaten, an early run-in that would set a template for future dealings with authority figures. Despite his grandparents’ care, Davies soon turns to petty crime, shoplifting for sport (as well as to provide trifles for his girlfriend). In bildungsroman mode, Davies begins by relating the story of his childhood in Wales, where he was raised by his grandparents after his father died and his mother essentially abandoned her children. Davies’s picaresque adventures in America in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp documents W.H. ![]()
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