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.
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