Think of the most amazing adventure story you have ever heard about, read about, or watched on film. How did it make you feel? Probably excited and inspired - and possibly a bit envious, and yearning for more adventure in your own life.

It happens to all of us. And too often we dismiss the thought out-of-hand. After all, isn't adventure reserved for the talented, the young, the strong?

Author John Hook says: No Adventure is available right now to all of us, regardless of our age or physical limitations.

He makes his point by broadening the definition of adventure to include "the...