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A Vagabond in the Caucasus: Some Notes of His Experiences Among the Russians

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Stephen Graham's A Vagabond in the Caucasus is a supremely unique take on travel through Russia and the Caucasus. Graham takes to the road in a modest fashion, with a bag and his camera at his side. As he arrives in Moscow not long after the Russian Revolution in 1917 he is not entirely welcomed with open arms. Instead, Graham is greeted by a group of soldiers who arrest

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Hardcover, 311 pages
Published January 27th 2006 by Routledge (first published 1911)
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Perry Whitford
Jun 13, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Inspired by the lofty sentiments of freedom found in Carlyle and Nietzsche and the works of Gorky and Gogol, Graham decided to give up his possessions, follow his star and go for tramp in Russia amongst the mountains of the Caucasus.

He arrived at Lisitchansk in Little Russia in time for Xmas where he stayed with a friend he met in London. The whole town eats, drinks and dances together for three days. He got to see some mummers staging Leonid Andreyev's The Life of Man, which impressed him so
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Bo
May 08, 2008 rated it really liked it
"i became, as the philosopher says, "full of malice against the seductions of dependency that lie concealed in houses, money or positions." Whereas i had sold myself to work, i had now bought myself back."

"Could anything be more amusing than the modern cry of the Right to Work? The English are an industrious, restless nation. And the prophets are very censorious of our respectable, though not respected, class. "It is not enough to be industrious," says thoreau, "so are the ants. The question is,
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Mona M
Nov 22, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Stephen Graham writes about traveling through Russia in a beautifully poetical and philosophical way. Although his book may not be very applicable to traveling through modern-day Россия, it's still a great read for anyone interested in that grand country.
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Stephen Graham (1884 - 15 March 1975) was a British journalist, travel-writer, essayist and novelist. His best-known books recount his travels around pre-revolutionary Russia and his journey to Jerusalem with a group of Russian Christian pilgrims. Most of his works express his sympathy for the poor, for agricultural labourers and for tramps, and his distaste for industrialisation.

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