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Review of The Treehouse Diaries
Last year I became friends with Nick Weston when I went to stay with him in his treehouse.
Nick did a couple of great talks for me at the charity Nights of Adventure I organised. You can see his 6 minute talk here.
I’ve just finished reading his book and it’s great. I asked him to send [...]
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Books to take backpacking this summer
If you’re getting ready to head off somewhere exciting this summer you will need a few good books in your pack.
Here is a selection to get you going, including:
Jack Kerouac. On the Road
Peter Mathiessen. Snow Leopard
Joseph Heller. Catch 22
Herman Hesse. Siddhartha
Yann Martel. Life of Pi
Pirsig. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Writing is not a sensible activity. Just do it.
Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.
People with good judgment weigh the assurance of a comfortable living represented by the mariners’ certificates that declare them masters [...]
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The Happy Traveller. A Book for Poor Men
An excerpt from the wonderful book The Happy Traveller: A Book for Poor Men from 1923.
“I saw mankind, in this weary old age of the world either enduring a sluggish existence amid the smoke and dust of cities, or if they breathed purer air, still lying down at night with no hope but to wear [...]
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Audio book and travel photography (3)
I’ve added photographs from my ride round the world to short audio excerpts from Moods of Future Joys.
You can listen to them all here.
(apologies: the audio begins about 15s in)
Audio Excerpts from ‘Moods of Future Joys’ – 3 from alastair Humphreys on Vimeo.
How to become an author
Mark Pilgrim, writer and Google employee has these fine, ferocious words to say about aspiring to be a writer. Read them, turn off the internet and then get on with writing your next book. (That’s a message to myself, not to you!)
“I’m a three-time (soon to be four-time) published author. When aspiring authors learn this, [...]
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Audio book and travel photography (2)
I’ve added photographs from my ride round the world to short audio excerpts from Moods of Future Joys.
You can listen to them all here.
(apologies: the audio begins about 15s in)
Audio Excerpts from ‘Moods of Future Joys’ – 2 from alastair Humphreys on Vimeo.
Yet another list of Top Travel Books!
I wonder how many years I will need to wait until I ever get myself onto somebody’s list of Top Travel books?!
A long time, I fear, if I am competing against books as good as these.
Whoever picked these books for the Telegraph chose well.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning [...]
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Top 10 books from the Travel Bookshop in London
The Travel Bookshop in London (as seen in the film Notting Hill) has come up with their Top 10 Travel Books.
I have read 6 of their suggestions. I agree that a Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Kon-Tiki Expedition and The Places In Between all deserve to be in the list. However the [...]
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What I learned from Innocent Smoothies
I really enjoyed reading Innocent Smoothies’ latest book, the account of their development and some of the lessons they have learned along the way. I met some of the Innocent team at last year’s Do Lectures and was very impressed with their ethos.
It taught me lots about ethical business, and gave me stacks of [...]
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