Espedal Tomas - Tramp Or The Art Of Living A Wild And Poetic Life - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A lyrical travelogue charting Tomas Espedal's journeys to and ruminations around the world from his native Norway to Istanbul and beyond. Why travel? asks Tomas Espedal in Tramp 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. The first step in any trip or journey is always a footstep the brave or curious act of putting one foot in front of the other and stepping out of the house onto the sidewalk below. Here Espedal contemplates what this ambulatory mode of travel has meant for great artists and thinkers including Rousseau Kant Hazlitt Thoreau Rimbaud Whitman Giacometti and Robert Louis Stevenson. In the process he confronts his own inability to write from a fixed abode and his refusal to banish the temptation to become permanently itinerant. Lyrical and rebellious immediate and sensuous Tramp conveys Espedal's own need to explore on foot in places as diverse as Wales and Turkey and offers us the excitement and adventure of being a companion on his fascinating and intriguing travels.
Title: Tramp Or The Art Of Living A Wild And Poetic Life
Author(s): Espedal Tomas
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Barcode: 9781803090306
Pages: 322 Pages
Publication Date: 3/7/2022
Category: Travel & Holiday