The Gentle Art of Tramping

An absolute gem of a book – Alastair Humphreys * Microadventures, Local Adventures for Great Escapes *A hymn to the wilderness of the the British Isles – Robert Macfarlane * 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. – Christopher Somerville * 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 – Tristan Gooley * The Natural Navigator *The Gentle Art of Tramping is Mr. Graham’s masterpiece * New York Herald *

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.