Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes

ISBN-13: 9780007548033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str.

Alastair Humphreys

Opis

Refresh your life with a tiny little adventure that s close to home and easy on your pocket. Inspiration is abundant in this brilliant and beautifully-illustrated guide.What exactly is an adventure? Something that s new and exhilarating. Something that launches you from your comfort zone into a different place altogether. An adventure changes you and how you see the world. And while we can t all be Bear Grylls, what an adventurer really needs is bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity.Let Alastair Humphreys introduce you to the exciting world of microadventures adventures that are close to home, cheap, simple, short, and yet very effective. A microadventure takes the spirit of a big adventure and squeezes it into a day or even a few hours.The point of microadventures is that you do not need lots of time and money to meet a new challenge. Go on a night hike; follow a nature trail; take the plunge with wild swimming. This practical guide is filled with great activities and days out, and over 150 stunning photographs, plus tips and advice on safety and kit.Whether it is sleeping on a hilltop, 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."

Recenzje

Praise for Alastair Humphreys:

'Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap' Geographical

'Enormous determination, lateral thinking, and a love for life and adventure' Sir Ranulph Fiennes

'I feel proud that our nation still produces nutters like you' Major General G J Binns CBE DSO MC

O autorze

Alastair Humphreys is a British adventurer, author, blogger, film-maker and photographer. He spent over four years cycling round the world, a journey of 46,000 miles through 60 countries and across five continents. More recently, Alastair has walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run six marathons through the Sahara desert, completed a crossing of Iceland, and participated in an expedition in the Arctic, close to the magnetic North Pole. He has trekked 1,000 miles across the Empty Quarter desert and 120 miles round the M25 motorway - one of his pioneering microadventures. He has written nine books and has been named as one of National Geographic's Adventurers of the Year.