Just go down to the road : a memoir of trouble and travel / James Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, James, 1951- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Campbell, James, 1951-.

Campbell, James.

Authors--Biography.

Authors.

Journalists--Biography.

Journalists.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Paul Dry Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2022.

Summary:

"In Just go down to the road, James Campbell, a native Glaswegian, recounts his years as an incipient juvenile delinquent (arrested for stealing books!) and his young adulthood spent "on the road" in the early 1970s. After dropping out of school at fifteen, Campbell struggled with family relations and factory work. Soon he threw it all off and went traveling--through Europe, the Near East, and North Africa. His was a bohemian existence; he got along by hitchhiking and trading work for shelter. In time, Campbell settled back in Scotland. Long a reader and writer, he began working for local magazines and attending University. His early encounters with well-known authors including John Fowles and James Baldwin set him on his true path, which took him to the position of long-time writer of the NB column for the Times Literary Supplement. Just go down to the road ends as Campbell gets his first book deal, and, after an unlikely start and unorthodox education, begins to find his place in the world of literature."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE THIS LAND IS MY LAND

1. Theft

2. A Confession

3. Report Card

4. The Land Girl And The Petty Officer! An Interlude

5. The Apprentice! Washie's

6. The Scotia Bar

7. Life In The Underground

pt. TWO THE LAND OF AWAY

8. Istanbul And Spetsai

9. Kibbutz Philosophy

10. Trocchl's Pad

11. Hitch-Hiker's Personality Test

12. The Magus

13. "How Long Has That Train Been Gone"

14. Lewes Prison.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781589881648

1589881648

OCLC:

1319011495