Download or read book The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp - With a preface by Bernard Shaw (The life of William Henry Davies) written by W. H. Davies and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography first published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W.H. Davies. A large part of the book's subject matter describes the way of life of the tramp in United Kingdom, Canada and the United States in the final decade of the 19th century. W.H. Davies (1871-1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life as a tramp or hobo, in the United Kingdom and United States, but became one of the most popular poets of his time. The principal themes in his work are the marvels of nature, observations about life's hardships, his own tramping adventures and the various characters he met.