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Shouting from the Shed 109 Here are some things I’d like to share with you today: Would you like to win a free bike and some camping gear to go on an adventure or a microadventure? Apply today. My new book, Local, about exploring a single map […]...

Coolest Adventure Plan Gets a Free Touring Bike and Gear! Update – We have our Winner! Keith and I were thrilled with the quantity and quality of entries for the competition to win Keith’s bike, some Alpkit gear, and a year’s subscription to Komoot. Thank you to everyone who entered, […]...

Local What surprises are waiting to be discovered on your doorstep? After travelling the whole world, can exploring a single map ever be enough? Adventurer Alastair Humphreys spends a year investigating the small map around his own home. Can this unassuming landscape, marked by the glow of city lights and the hum of busy roads, satisfy his wanderlust? Could a single map provide a lifetime of exploration? He discovers more about the natural world than in all his years in remote environments. And he wakes up to the terrible state of British nature, land use, and freedom to roam the countryside. This is an ode to slowing down and the meaningful experience of truly getting to know your neighbourhood. Local is a celebration of curiosity, time spent outdoors, and a rallying cry to protect the wild places on our doorstep. It is a reminder for all of us that nature and wildness are closer than we think. Explore the world... On your local map. *(I do feel I should offer a warning to fans of my other books, eg Microadventures, that this book is quite different - it's more nature-based, and more activist in its messaging. If this sounds like it might make you cross, then it might not be the book for you. Sorry!)* Click here to order the book if you live outside the UK. Click here to read the book on Kindle. Click here to listen to the audiobook. ...

Shouting from the Shed 107 Shouting from the Shed Hi again, Below is the usual list of interesting stuff that I’d like to share with you. But first… a quick commercial break. 😉 We like our young people to read stories of Adventure because they’re […]...

Shouting from the Shed 105 Alastair Humphreys Shouting from the Shed Hi again, I’ll try to keep it short and sharp today, as the week of the summer solstice is no time to be reading (or writing) emails! Here are some things I’d like to share with […]...

LOCAL: A Year Exploring a Single Map Exploring the very local. Looking for nature, wildness, simplicity, perhaps even adventure. Putting nearby nature in everyday lives. ‘Alastair Humphreys shows us that space is deep as well as wide, and that one need travel only a few hundred yards […]...

Wild Camping on Dartmoor and the Right to Roam Responsibly Personally, I am not that bothered about wild camping on Dartmoor. I’d probably pick a dozen or more places in England where I’d rather roll out my bivvy bag and sleep under the stars. But when millionaire Alexander Darwall bought […]...

Wild camping is the best way to sleep. It shouldn’t be banned Camping. What does that word mean to you? A shudder of horror and on to the next idea? Perhaps it calls to mind nostalgia for carefree family holidays and glamping with hot tubs and fairy lights, mixed with memories of […]...

Shouting from the Shed 99 Shouting from the Shed Good morning, Happy New Year! I hope you are excited about this year, and perhaps are planning a monthly microadventure or tree climb, or to read more books than you did last year. This is the 99th edition of Shouting from the Shed, […]...

Shouting from the Shed 98 Hi again, This will be my final newsletter of the year, so I want to wish you a Merry Christmas, and encourage you to schedule some monthly nature or adventure into your life next year (eg: a tree climb, full moon outing, overnight camp, or […]...

Shouting from the Shed 93 Shouting from the Shed Hi again, I’ve got plenty of good stuff to share this week, so I’ll dive in straight away (after a quick reminder to any parents of 7-12 year olds that I’ve written a new book for children which […]...

The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean For overseas addresses, please click here. The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is also available as an Audiobook and on Kindle. The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is a book for children based on Alastair's experiences rowing the Atlantic. It is a loose sequel to the best-selling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy, suitable for children aged 7–12. 262 pages...

Shouting from the Shed 88 Hi again, Boy, oh boy, May certainly is a beautiful month for getting out into nature. I hope you are getting the chance to explore wherever you live. My shed is almost submerged beneath a creamy, frothy sea of cow parsley, […]...

Shouting from the Shed 87 View in browser Pip, pip, tally ho! If a friend forwarded this to you, why don’t you allow me to hand-deliver it, crisp and fresh, next time? Ooh, yes please! Alastair Humphreys Shouting from the Shed Hi again, Oh, to […]...

Shouting from the Shed 85 Shouting from the Shed Hi again, Last week I got back to the Lake District for the first time since Covid began. Those hills are good for my soul! As a way of saying thank you for people supporting my newsletter, I’d like […]...

Shouting from the Shed – 82 Happy New Year! 👉 Here’s to a year filled with curiosity, adventure and time spent in nature. I blew away my New Year’s Day cobwebs with a river swim and this resolution: “Here’s to more nearby nature in everyday lives this year, […]...

Change Your Life Bundle – with FREE notebooks A bundle of books to help you work out what you want to do in life in order to live more adventurously, to think about what is stopping you, and then to help you take the first steps in the direction you want to go. Microadventures will help you fit adventures into your busy daily life, even if you are short of time and money and do not live in the mountains. It is full of achievable ideas that you can put into practice right away – by yourself, with your friends, or with your family. The Doorstep Mile asks three questions. What do you want? What is stopping you? What tiny little step can you take to begin moving towards the life you really want? The doorstep mile... Ask An Adventurer is a book to help you live adventurously, be creative, and earn a living from it. Also included FREE with this bundle are two guided workbooks (worth £13) to help you write, think, journal and scribble your way to answers and bold new resolutions and adventures....

Adventure Stories Bundle This bundle includes the narrative stories of Alastair's different adventures. Moods of Future Joys is the story of a young man setting off to cycle around the world. There are Other Rivers is an account of walking across southern India and an attempt to capture why we love to test ourselves with difficult challenges. Microadventures is the author's search for wildness, beauty and adventure close to home after many years spent exploring far-flung lands. My Midsummer Morning asks what 'living adventurously' means to us. Is it more than tents and expeditions and wilderness? Alastair busks very badly through Spain in the footsteps of his favourite travel book, whilst also trying to juggle being a father and being a wandering, adventurous individual. Buy this bundle and save 40% on the regular price!...

My Most Popular Films of All Time Here are the most popular films from my YouTube Channel. I hope you enjoy them. Please do subscribe to my channel if you’d like to see more. A short film about building a log raft on a river in Sweden, […]...

Coffee Outside on a Walk As we inch into the new year, this marks our 12th installment of Coffee Adventures Outside. A full year of prompts and encouragement to use our coffee habits as an excuse to get outside. It is perhaps fitting that we […]...

Shouting from the Shed 79 Hi again, First of all, apologies if you received an errant email from me last week. Accidentally clicking ‘send’ to 18,000 people is mortifying. I have decided to experiment for a few weeks with increasing the frequency of my newsletters but decreasing […]...

Dealing with Loneliness on Adventures Do you ever get Lonely on Adventures? How do you deal with long periods of being alone on a solo adventure? – Bryn When you’re alone and grinding a long segment of your travels, what do you tend to think about? […]...

Do I Feel an Obligation to Keep ‘Adventuring’? The Adventurer Identity When did you know that this is what you currently want to devote your life to? – Sirena When you go off on an adventure, macro/micro, do you feel that you are running towards something or away from […]...

How to Choose Your Next Adventure How Do I ‘come up with’ Adventure Ideas? I’m interested in how far ahead you are planning the next 1, 2, 3 adventures. Are you always planning multiple things? – Fraser Where do you get your adventure ideas from? I know […]...

Isn’t adventure an entirely pointless and self-indulgent pursuit with no value to society? Do you have a sense of guilt about satisfying your own adventure desires? Isn’t adventure an entirely pointless and self-indulgent pursuit with no value to society? Plus: scroll to the bottom for a question about why I’m Vegan… 🌱 Back when […]...

How to Get Your Book Published. How Do I Get Published? How much money does a book like Microadventures make? – Laurence Do you have any tips for improving my writing skilzzz? – Rosie Is it easy to get a book published? – Leo Most people who ask ‘how do I get […]...

The Daily Rituals and Routines of a ‘Working Adventurer’ How Do I Get Stuff Done? How many hours a week does your ‘adventure’ life require you to work at a desk / on a computer? – Kazz What is your writing routine? If you’re stuck, distracted, or feeling blue, […]...

How Do You Start a Podcast? How do you go about creating a podcast? I love yours but wonder where does someone start? – Ffion I love your podcast and it sounds amazing! Could you tell us about the equipment and software you use to create and […]...

How do you deal with post-adventure blues and having to come back to ‘normality’? “How do you deal with post-adventure blues and having to come back to ‘normality’?” – Clare “It is an expeditionary irony that, while away, the adventurer is all too often dreaming of getting home, even making heart-felt resolutions to slow down […]...

Who I envy in the Adventure world This is an extract from my book Ask An Adventurer… Who do you Envy? “Just because you’re better than me Doesn’t mean I’m lazy. Just because you’re going forwards Doesn’t mean I’m going backwards.” — Billy Bragg “We got everything […]...

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