[Illustration: NIGHT OVER THE BLACK SEA]




A TRAMP'S SKETCHES

BY

STEPHEN GRAHAM

1913


TO

"THE CELESTIALS"




PREFACE


This book was written chiefly whilst tramping along the Caucasian and
Crimean shores of the Black Sea, and on a pilgrimage with Russian
peasants to Jerusalem. Most of it was written in the open air, sitting
on logs in the pine forests or on bridges over mountain streams, by
the side of my morning fire or on the sea sand after the morning dip.
It is not so much a book about Russia as about the tramp. It is the