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A review by tonyfrobisher
Ask An Adventurer: Behind the scenes: making a living from living adventurously, growing an audience, and unconventional creativity. by Alastair Humphreys
5.0
Life lessons from the Shed
I have always enjoyed reading Alastair Humphreys books, from his epic 4 year solo cycle ride around the world to walking across India to busking for a month in Spain. Adventure is an escape, an ambition and an entertainment. I have massive admiration for someone who can undertake such adventures in wild, wonderful and exotic places and convey a sense of wonderment, landscape, people, cultures, emotions, achievements and failures and imbue in others a spark to partake in their own adventures. I have travelled widely, travelled overland from Hong Kong to Athens, but where Alastair and I differ if that it is not my career. It is not how I pay my bills and put food on the table.
Ask An Adventurer is a fantastic book that details every aspect of being a 'working adventurer'. It is practical and most of all honest. The adventures, the trips away are the 'easy' part. The return to normal life and the subsequent marketing, promotion, book and blog writing, etc etc is time consuming and needs dedication and application.
I won't become a working adventurer. I'm 53 have a family. But in my own creative life as a writer and being self employed, there are so many excellent ideas in this superb book I can and will employ in my own life.
Life is an adventure and we should enjoy it as such. Alastair Humphreys has shown how it is possible to live and work adventurously and how with dedication and hard work you can live a successful life on your own terms.
I have always enjoyed reading Alastair Humphreys books, from his epic 4 year solo cycle ride around the world to walking across India to busking for a month in Spain. Adventure is an escape, an ambition and an entertainment. I have massive admiration for someone who can undertake such adventures in wild, wonderful and exotic places and convey a sense of wonderment, landscape, people, cultures, emotions, achievements and failures and imbue in others a spark to partake in their own adventures. I have travelled widely, travelled overland from Hong Kong to Athens, but where Alastair and I differ if that it is not my career. It is not how I pay my bills and put food on the table.
Ask An Adventurer is a fantastic book that details every aspect of being a 'working adventurer'. It is practical and most of all honest. The adventures, the trips away are the 'easy' part. The return to normal life and the subsequent marketing, promotion, book and blog writing, etc etc is time consuming and needs dedication and application.
I won't become a working adventurer. I'm 53 have a family. But in my own creative life as a writer and being self employed, there are so many excellent ideas in this superb book I can and will employ in my own life.
Life is an adventure and we should enjoy it as such. Alastair Humphreys has shown how it is possible to live and work adventurously and how with dedication and hard work you can live a successful life on your own terms.