I found this book by accident, going through my local library and if it wasn't for it's sick title and the author's Texas-sized ego, it would be a fantastic read.
Gypsetters are artists, surfers, designers, and bon vivants who live and work around the globe, from Jose Ignacio, Uruguay and Ibiza, Spain, to Montauk, New York. Gypset Style explores the unconventional, wanderlust lives of these high-low cultural nomads and the bohemian enclaves they inhabit, as well as their counterculture forbears, such as the Victorian explorers, the Lost Generation, the Beatniks, and the hippies. And along the way, author Julia Chaplin looks back at quintessential gypsy boho moments in social history - according to the publisher.
Author Julia Chaplin
Chaplin finds some very interesting characters, living their dreams to the max and she wholesales in fantastic ideas about how and where to live the perfect life. Great pictures, inspiring people, showing that everything you believe in is possible...
What I don't like is the title: the fusion of 'gypsy' and 'jet-set'. Chaplin refers to Gypsies (Rromani) as the ultimate bohemians, people full of wanderlust, happy wandering people - living the free life.
You don't need to be an Einstein or a Rromani scholar like Ian Hancock to come up with a comment like this on Amazon's book review.
The people Chaplin writes about couldn't be further removed from the gypsies she romantically associates with (but yes, she is a good advocate for the striped shirt...).
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