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'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.
Contents
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
