A tramp's notes

"Wander through the world’s margins with A Tramp’s Note-Book, Morley Roberts’s haunting and candid collection of essays chronicling life on the road, hardship, and the human soul.
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In this deeply personal “notebook,” Roberts moves between San Francisco’s grim streets, Portuguese villages, the African veldt, British Columbia’s wilds, Corsica, and the Matterhorn — always observing, always probing.
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Each piece is both travelogue and memoir, blending external landscape with internal terrain: alienation, hunger, faith, dignity, despair.
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Though written in the early 20th century, Roberts’s insights remain surprising in their emotional immediacy. He doesn’t romanticize the tramp life — he reveals its costs, its sharp edges, its unspoken struggles. But he also shows its unexpected lessons: humility, resilience, the clarity borne of brokenness.

This edition has been carefully formatted for contemporary reading, with clean typography, preserved original text, and introductory notes to help modern readers situate Roberts’s journey in historical context.

Whether you are drawn to travel writing, personal reflection, or literary memoirs of adversity, A Tramp’s Note-Book offers a rare, unvarnished voice — one that asks what it means to walk the margins, survive, and still look inward.

Let this notebook lead you where many dare not tread."