This book is a revised & enlarged version of the original maquette for Josef Koudelkas book Cikani (Czech for Gypsies) prepared by Koudelka & graphic designer Milan Kopriva in 1968 & intended for publication in Prague in 1970. However Koudelka left Czechoslovakia in 1970 & the book was never published in that original form. Koudelkas stark images depict the poverty & clannishness of Gypsy life but he does not present their situation as a social problem that should somehow be fixed. Instead he shows the Gypsies as perpetual outsiders & their lives as a primal mix of glee & wonder sorrow & mystery. This extended version of the seminal Gitans la fin du voyage consists of 109 photographs taken between 1962 & 1971 in what was Czechoslovakia (Bohemia Moravia & Slovakia) Romania Hungary France & Spain. Sociologist Will Guy author of the text that accompanied the first publication of Gypsies has contributed an updated essay tracing the migration of the Roma from their original homeland in northern India to their current status one that continues to be contested internationally.