Stephen Graham was a prolific writer of travel literature, fiction, and biography, as well as a translator of Russian literature and an interpreter of Russian culture. His reputation rests on a handful of travel volumes and his wartime exposé A Private in the Guards (1919). His early works were travel narratives. Graham made his journeys on foot, developing a rugged and aggressive style of travel that he described as tramping. As a vagabond he was not interested in a fixed destination, but in the trip itself. He was a roving commentator, a "tramp" who produced picturesque descriptions, studied character types, and offered insights on contemporary political situations and history. In A Tramp's Sketches (1912), he called tramps "rebels against modern life," who are concerned more with people than with places. Graham translated the vagabond's dependence on people for food and a dry bed into his own socio-anthropological method for...