expeditions:
Books
Available on this site only: all books signed by the author! If you would like a personalised inscription in the book send an email with your request immediately after purchasing the book. Perfect for presents!
‘Moods of Future Joys’ and ‘Thunder & Sunshine’ have both received excellent reviews and are fast becoming cult classics. Alastair’s new book, ‘Ten Lessons from the Road’, is set to continue that success.
Decide for yourself: click on the images of the books to discover more, look inside each book and buy signed copies. Listen to Alastair reading his work here.
Or, if you are ready to buy you can use this form:
“An Epic Adventure” – Benedict Allen
“An incredible journey of distance, strength and determination” – Josie Dew
“…mesmerising story. [Humphreys] undertook the expedition to find out if he could write. Believe me, he can. And rather well, too. You can almost feel the sand being kicked up in your face as you turn the page… This book is a literary match to his physical achievement.” – Geographical
“…if a lad from Yorkshire can overcome international terrorism, dysentery, a crushing Siberian winter and a month without showering… then there’s not really any reason why we all can’t. He may not have meant it, but Humphreys’ engaging, sometimes brutal, sometimes comic style is above all a call to arms… documented with unflinching honesty. Humphreys conveys his loneliness, wanderlust, grit and despair in a manner reminiscent of the great tradition of British explorers. He may have spent many hours asking why the hell he was doing this; anyone reading his book may, in the great tradition of watching British explorers, be more curious as to whether this man was insane or not.” – The Guardian
“Wonderful…” – Midweek, BBC Radio 4
“A compelling read” – Velovision
“Fascinating and well written” – Adventure Travel
“A peek into the incredible world of Alastair Humphreys” – Sport magazine
Other Writing
Alastair has contributed chapters to Lonely Planet’s Flightless anthology, the Traveller’s Handbook, and the Adventure Cycle-touring Handbook. He has written for numerous magazines, including Geographical and The Ride Journal.
Alastair’s books began life as raw, spontaneous blog entries. If you are interested you can read these, unedited, here: The Bicycle Diaries.
Alastair blogs regularly about writing. Here are a few relevant blog entries to get you started:
- The hundred greatest adventure books of all time
- Desert island books
- Free books: why give them away?
- Riding to write or writing to ride?
- Thunder and Sunshine
- On self publishing
- Writing in the blogosphere
- The difficulties of writing
- Most of what I know about writing
- Who am I, what do I want?
You can read Alastair’s books for free here (Moods; Thunder; Ten Lessons).
Finally, if you would like to purchase signed copies simply select your book and the appropriate shipping region (all prices include p&p):
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