Know how to tramp and you know how to live... Know how to meet your fellow-wanderer,how to be passive to the beauty of nature and how to be active to its wildness and its rigour.
The tramp is a friend of society; a seeker,they pay their way if they can. One includes in the category'tramp'all true Bohemians,pilgrims,explorers afoot,walking tourists,and the like. Tramping is a way of approach,to nature,to your fellow man,to a nation,to beauty,to life itself. It is a gentle art and there is much to learn; illusions to overcome,prejudices and habits to be shaken off. The adventure is not the getting there,it is the on-the-way. It is not the expected; it is the surprise; not the fulfilment of prophecy but the providence of something better than prophesied.
Originally published in 1926,The Gentle Art of Tramping is a guide for anyone who has dreamed of taking to the road with nothing more than a bag full of essentials and big ideas. It gives guidance on walking,being open to discovery and being kind - advice as relevant now as it was then.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781448217243Number of pages: 208Weight: 194 gDimensions: 178 x 111 mm
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'A hymn to the wilderness of the the British Isles'- Robert Macfarlane
'His book is impossible to read without imagining yourself on just such a walk,wrapped to the nines in waterproofs,with your B&B booked in the next village,as happy as anyone could be. (...) His joy is infectious.'- The Mail
'An absolute gem of a book'- Alastair Humphreys
'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.'- Christopher Somerville
'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'- Tristan Gooley
'The Gentle Art of Tramping is Mr. Graham's masterpiece'- The New York Herald
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