01302cam a2200301 i 4500 283097504 TxAuBib 20020315120000.0 020315s1970||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 70-125339 9780870440885 $10.00 0870440888 $10.00 TxAuBib rda McDowell, Bart. Gypsies : Wanderers Of The World / Bart McDowell; photographs by Bruce Dale. Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society, 1970. 215 p : hardbound. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Gypsies. A quicksilver people, gypsies resist scrutiny, sliding away from the spotlight of attention, remaining always an enigma. For a thousand years Gypsies have roamed the earth, living mainly by their wits, often just a step ahead of their nemeses, the authorities. Today some do lead settled lives but, in the words of Dr. Louis Krasno, one of America's leading cardiologists and himself a Gypsy, "it's a bit like harnessing a lion to a plow.". 20020315. Gypsies. Romanies. Books.