I enjoy walking, and any day without some form of a walk is for me an unfulfilled day. Mostly it is a reminder that it is often the journey that matters more than the destination.more I thought it was a charming little book and I really love the endpapers too which are reproductions of his notebooks. Things like, enjoy the time taken and not concern yourself with the distance covered, tramping is about earning happiness not money and the less you spend the more you will experience.
Some of the advice isn’t relevant now, but as you read it you can find gems that still are relevant to walking and enjoying the outside world today.
It is a book very much of its time, but then it was first published in 1927. There are chapters on what boots to wear, carrying money, lighting a fire, drying off after rain, what to carry in a knapsack, the tobacco to take and that the book to take when walking should be one that you are just on the cusp of making your own.įrom day to day you keep your log, your day-book of the soul and you may think at first that it is a mere record of travel and facts but something else will be entering into it, poetry, the new poetry of your life If you are considering taking to the lanes of the UK, then Graham has lots of advice for you.
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Know how to meet your fellow wanderer, how to be passive to the beauty of nature and to be active to its wildness and its rigour. What he considers as tramping is a gentle and meditative style of walking that you take as much time as you need to enjoy the walk and you are friend of society, a seeker of the unexpected and someone who travels light. Graham sees these as vagabonds and outlaws.
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