‘Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap’ Geographical
Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity.
So what’s a microadventure? It’s close to home, cheap, simple, short and 100% guaranteed to refresh your life. A microadventure takes the spirit of a big adventure and squeezes it into a day or even a few hours.
The point of a microadventure is that you don’t need lots of time and money to meet a new challenge. This practical guide is filled with ideas for microadventures – for you to experience on your own or with friends and family – and over 150 stunning photographs, plus tips and advice on safety and kit.
Whether it’s sleeping on a hilltop or going for a wild swim, cycling a lap of the Isle of Wight or walking home for Christmas, it’s time you discovered something new about yourself and the world outside your window. Adventure is everywhere, every day and it is up to us to find it.

Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes

Biographies & Memoirs

Humphreys, Alastair

Professionals & Academics

William Collins

‘Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap’ Geographical
Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity.
So what’s a GRAND ADVENTURE – it is the most life-changing, career-enhancing, personality-forging, fun adventure of your life.
Following on from his popular Microadventures, in Grand Adventures Alastair Humphreys shines a spotlight on the real-life things that get in the way: stuff like time, money or your other commitments. Grand Adventures is also crammed with hard-won wisdom from people who have actually been there and done that: by boat and boot, car and kayak, bicycle and motorbike. People who had one epic trip then returned to normal life, or who got bitten so badly by the bug that they devoted their life to the pursuit of adventure. Young people, old people. Men, women. Mates, couples, families. Extraordinary, inspiring people. People like you.
Saving your pennies, overcoming inertia, generating momentum, getting out the front door: if you want it enough, you can do it.
Tiny steps to a grand adventure.
Are you in?

Grand Adventures

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure

A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019 Seasoned adventurer Alastair Humphreys pushes himself to his very limits - busking his way across Spain with a violin he can barely play. In 1935 a young Englishman named Laurie Lee arrived in Spain. He had never been overseas; had hardly even left the quiet village he grew up in. His idea was to walk through the country, earning money for food by playing his violin in bars and plazas. Nearly a century later, the book Laurie Lee wrote - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning - inspired Alastair Humphreys. It made him fall in love with Spain - the landscapes and the spirit - and with Laurie's style of travel. He travelled slow, lived simply, slept on hilltops, relished spontaneity, and loved conversations with the different people he met along the hot and dusty road. For 15 years, Alastair dreamed of retracing Laurie Lee's footsteps, but could never get past the hurdle of being distinctly unmusical. This year, he decided to go anyway. The journey was his most terrifying yet, risking failure and humiliation every day, and finding himself truly vulnerable to the rhythms of the road and of his own life. But along the way, he found humility, redemption and triumph. It was a very good adventure.

Arts & Literature

With middle age approaching, the travel writer Alastair Humphreys decided to realize a long-standing to retrace his hero Laurie Leeâ€s 1935 walk through Spain, supporting himself by busking on the violin. Unfortunately, he couldnâ€t play the violin. In this memoir he tells how he overcame his fears, living simply, sleeping on hilltops, and meeting strangers on the hot and dusty road.

Adventurer Alastair Humphreys has cycled around the world and rowed across the Atlantic ocean, but the most daunting adventure of his life was yet to come. For years, he had dreamed of retracing author Laurie Lee's footsteps, busking his way across Spain, a violin his only source of income. The only problem? Unlike Laurie Lee, Alastair couldn't play the violin. The thought of busking in public, depending on the violin and the goodwill of strangers, terrified him more than any previous adventure. But so too did the looming prospect of middle age, growing up and settling down. So eventually he decided to go anyway. Risking failure and humiliation every day, he made himself truly vulnerable to the rhythms of the road and of his own life. And along the way, he found humility, redemption, direction and rediscovered a life of adventure. Book jacket.

Alastair Humphreys walked across India, from the Coromandel Coast to the Malabar Coast, following the course of a holy river. Walking alone and spending the nights sleeping under the stars, in the homes of welcoming strangers or in small towns and villages, he experienced the dusty enchantment of ordinary, real India on the smallest of budgets. 
There Are Other Rivers tells the story of the walk through an account of a single day as well as reflecting on the allure of difficult journeys and the eternal appeal of the open road. 
Alastair Humphreys is a National Geographic ‘Adventurer of the Year’. 
Reviews for previous books 
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<li>“Believe me, he can write, and rather well” - Geographical 
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<li>“...displays a tendency for Big Hairy Audacious Goals that is almost unnerving.” - Treehugger.com 
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Amazon Reviews 
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<li>“This book has it all: it’s a great travel read, a look into the human soul and how most people, given enough determination, could attempt something like this.” 
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<li>“No expensive equipment or ‘fastest, strongest, quickest’; just a brilliant, understated story.” 
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<li>“Simply outstanding.” 
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<li>“If you prefer the comfort of your armchair these books will still stir your imagination and curiosity for the world.” 
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<li>“An absolute must-read or any passionate traveller.” 
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GoodReads Reviews 
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<li>“Wow... another great book by Alastair Humphreys.” 
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<li>“One of the best adventure travel books I’ve read.”</li>
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www.alastairhumphreys.com
@al_humphreys

There Are Other Rivers: On Foot Across India

Sports & Outdoors

Hiking & Camping

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Tom is on the last leg of his journey where he continues to discover strange and amazing sights and meet a host of fun characters. He skids through freezing Siberia, and in Japan shares a steaming hot pool with some surprised monkeys. Based on the author’s personal experiences, this book provides an immersive experience for young adventurers.

The Boy Who Biked the World: Part Three: Riding Home through Asia (3)

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Eye Books

Live adventurously, be creatice, make a living: What is it like to build a life from unconventional careers? Adventurers cross deserts and row oceans, appearing to live the dream. Yet they also must pay the bills and carve out time to get away. Are you trying to make a career doing what you love, daring to go freelance in a creative industry, growing an audience or curious about an unconventional career? What is it like to build a life from living adventurously? Whether you are adventurous, creative or just curious, Ask An Adventurer answers your questions from behind the scenes.

Ask an Adventurer

An inspirational ocean adventure’ Bear Grylls Lucy wants to explore the world, and do something daring and difficult. But people laugh at her when she hatches a plan to row across the Atlantic Ocean. So her family rallies round to help prepare for the journey, loading her boat with supplies for 3,000 miles of rowing. Her school friends follow her from afar, learning about the ocean, its wildlife and pollution. Alone at sea, Lucy faces seasickness, storms and a very sore bottom, not to mention close encounters with ships and a humpback whale. Yet there are also the joys of wandering seabirds, shooting stars and magical sunsets, as she finds she is capable of more than she ever imagined. Step aboard and join Lucy on her life-changing adventure to become the girl who rowed the ocean. The ocean-going follow-up to the bestselling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy.

The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean

Animals

'Agile, wryly funny and wise' Robert Macfarlane A search for nearby nature and wildness After years of expeditions all over the world, adventurer Alastair Humphreys spends a year exploring the detailed local map around his home. Can this unassuming landscape, marked by the glow of city lights and the hum of busy roads, hold any surprises for the world traveller or satisfy his wanderlust? Could a single map provide a lifetime of exploration? Discovering more about the natural world than in all his years in remote environments, he learns the value of truly getting to know his neighbourhood. An ode to slowing down, Local is a celebration of curiosity and time spent outdoors, as well as a rallying cry to protect the wild places on our doorstep.

Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness

Eye Books Ltd

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Books by Humphreys, Alastair

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Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes

Grand Adventures

My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure

My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure

My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure

There Are Other Rivers: On Foot Across India

The Boy Who Biked the World: Part Three: Riding Home through Asia (3)

Ask an Adventurer

The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean

Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness