Hobo


The Road
Hobo
You Can't Win
Beggars of Life
Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
Tales of an American Hobo (Singular Lives)
Factotum
Waiting For Nothing
The Adventures of a Woman Hobo
Hard Travellin': The Hobo and his History
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression
Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
Riding Toward Everywhere
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, A Dictionary of Buckish... by Francis GroseI Love it When You Talk Retro by Ralph KeyesHow to Commit a Murder by Danny AhearnSmaller Slang Dictionary by Eric PartridgeStraight from the Fridge, Dad by Max Décharné
•One Horse Open Slang
116 books — 5 voters
The Christmas Throwaway by R.J. ScottA Note in the Margin by Isabelle RowanBroken Pieces by Riley HartSidecar by Amy LaneSlide by Garrett Leigh
Gay Romance Featuring a Homeless MC
133 books — 136 voters

Look at your “hobophobia.” If there is one group of people our majority population fear and despise it is rootless, nomadic individuals with no stake in society. They offend simply by “opting out”—of property, commitments, beliefs, relationships, expectations. Many such people have turned their backs on a society they don’t understand or can’t cope with. They have absconded from the pressures to compete, to perform, to sell out, to join in the dance of bureaucracy, money worries, cohabitation, ...more
Colin Feltham, Keeping Ourselves in the Dark

Jack London
Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean—an ever changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out of the bushes at every turn of the road. The hobo never knows what is going to happen the next moment; hence, he lives only in the present moment. He has learned the futility of telic endeavor, and knows the delight of drifting along with the whimsicalities of Chance
Jack London, The Road

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