Vagabond (person)
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A vagabond is a (generally impoverished) itinerant person. Such people may be called tramps, rogues, hobos or schnorrers.
A vagabond is a traveling person that does not have a home, just roams wherever he or she pleases.
Vagabonds are not bums, as bums are not known for traveling.
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, a 2003 book by travel writer Rolf Potts, encourages the practice of wandering the world on a shoe-string budget.
A famous mathematician vagabond is Paul Erdős.
[edit] In Literature
- George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London is a memoir of his experiences as a vagabond in these two cities.
- Jack Shaftoe, one of the major characters in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, is a vagabond.
