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`Why travel? Why not just stay at home, in your room, in your house, in the place you like better than any other, your own place. The familiar house, the requisite rooms in which we have gathered the things we need, a good bed, a desk, a whole pile of books. The windows giving on to the sea and the garden with its apple trees and holly hedge, a beautiful garden, growing wild.`
Walking, travelling, starting with the street outside, the act of putting one foot in front of the other, moving out of the familiar house, the lonely house, and beginning a journey in which you’re never alone. Tomas Espedal contemplates what walking has meant for great artists and thinkers: Rousseau, Kant, Hazlitt, Thoreau, Rimbaud, Whitman, Giacometti and Stevenson; and dissects his own inability to write from a fixed abode, or to banish the temptation to become permanently itinerant.
Lyrical and rebellious, immediate and sensuous, Tramp unstintingly conveys Espedal’s own need to explore on foot—places as diverse as Wales and Turkey—and offers us the excitement and adventure of his lush and inimitable travelogues.
ISBN - 9781906497682
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Pages : 322
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