Product Description: W.H. Davies is best known today for his popular poem 'Leisure'. But this elegant homage to the quiet life stands in stark contrast to the picaresque story of its author. Jobless, penniless and homeless for the majority of the first half of his life, Davies roamed the streets from the Welsh docklands to Northern Canada - losing his leg freeriding a train in the Yukon along the way...read more

Product Description: Barbara Hooper, acclaimed biographer of W.H. Davies, looks at the life of the author of Cider With Rosie, providing a warm and witty portrait of the man and the writer. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)