<b>An absolute gem</b> of a book

- Alastair Humphreys, Microadventures, Local Adventures for Great Escapes

<b>A hymn to the wilderness</b> of the the British Isles

- Robert Macfarlane, The Wild Places

<b>A wonderful book</b>, 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, The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain

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Beware this book, it's a wolf in sheep's clothing - a thrillingly subversive life philosophy dressed in alluring practical advice. <b>Strongly recommended</b> for rebels and the restless

- Tristan Gooley, The Natural Navigator

<i>The Gentle Art of Tramping</i> is Mr. Graham’s <b>masterpiece</b>

New York Herald

'An absolute gem of a book' Alastair Humphreys First published in 1926, The Gentle Art of Tramping is as relevant now as then. Tramping is an approach: to nature, to humankind, to nations, to beauty, to life itself. This lost classic is a breath of fresh air for world-weary souls. It is a gentle art; 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 adventure is not the getting there, it’s the ‘on-the-way’. It is not the expected, it is the surprise.
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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
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A classic guide for walking and for life, advocating a philosophy of travelling light and savouring your surroundings, with an introduction by Alastair Humphreys.
Alastair Humphreys - National Geographic's Adventurer of the year and bestselling author, calls this an 'absolute gem of a book' - writing the intro

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781448217243
Publisert
2019-04-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Reader
Vekt
194 gr
Høyde
178 mm
Bredde
111 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter
Foreword by

Om bidragsyterne

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.