Gypsies of the World: A Journey Into the Hidden World of Gypsy Life and Culture by Nebojsa Bato Tomasevic and Rajko Djuric
I've been interested in gypsies for a while now and this is an excellent book with plenty of pictures on the subject. Now I confess that I've mostly been looking at pictures and just reading the captions, not the actual text of the book. Did you know that many gypsies train bears? One of the most interesting captions described how the authors were invited to a gypsy establishment and given some nuts, dried fruit and murky liquid to drink. Their guide drank the liquid but the authors only pretended to sip and a few minutes later their guide was slumped on the floor and the lights had gone out. When the lights came back on, the authors had backed themselves against a wall and when the gypsies realized their trick didn't work, the authors left quickly, dragging their drugged guide out of there! Did you know that gypsies are originally from India? They don't eat a lot of meat and one of their main staples is roti which they cook on dried cow dung!