A classic guide for walking and for life, advocating a philosophy of travelling light and savouring your surroundings, with an introduction by Alastair Humphreys.
Foreword
1. We Set Out
2. Boots
3. The Knapsack
4. Clothes
5. Carrying Money
6. The Companion
7. Whither Away?
8. The Art of Idleness
9. Emblems of Tramping
10. The Fire
11. The Bed
12. The Dip
13. Drying after Rain
14. Marching Songs
15. Scrounging
16. Seeking Shelter
17. The Tramp as Cook
18. Tobacco
19. Books
20. Long Halts
21. Foreigners
22. The Artist’s Notebook
23. Maps
24. Trespassers’ Walk
25. A Zigzag Walk
26. The Open
For the Reader to Contribute
A Note on the Author
Stephen Graham (1884-1975) was a British journalist, travel writer and novelist. His books recount his travels around pre-revolutionary Russia and to Jerusalem with a group of Russian Christian pilgrims. Most of his works express sympathy for the poor, for agricultural labourers and vagabonds, and his distaste for industrialisation. He was the son of the editor of Country Life.
An absolute gem of a book
*Microadventures, Local Adventures for Great Escapes*
A hymn to the wilderness of the the British Isles
*The Wild Places*
A wonderful book, so many of its points as valid now as they were a
hundred years ago. A great catalyst for getting people off their
backsides and out into wild places, with its can-do attitude ...
The pages of my copy are so dog-eared from turning down the corners
to mark yet another quotable gem that I can hardly close it.
*The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain*
Beware this book, it's a wolf in sheep's clothing - a thrillingly
subversive life philosophy dressed in alluring practical advice.
Strongly recommended for rebels and the restless
*The Natural Navigator*
The Gentle Art of Tramping is Mr. Graham’s masterpiece
*New York Herald*
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