At the age of 24, Alastair Humphreys set off to try to cycle round the world. By the time he arrived back home, four years later, he had ridden 46,000 miles across five continents on a budget of just £7,000.  From frozen Siberia tundra to the jungles...

Alastair Humphreys: Around the World by Bike

Financial Times Summer Book of 2019  Seasoned adventurer Alastair Humphreys pushes himself to his very limits - busking his way across Spain with a violin he can barely play.  In 1935 a young Englishman named Laurie Lee arrived in Spain. He had never...

My Midsummer Morning

Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap Geographical Adventure something that's new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity. So...

Microadventures

Alastair Humphreys walked across India, from the Coromandel Coast to the Malabar Coast, following the course of a holy river. Walking alone and spending the nights sleeping under the stars, in the homes of welcoming strangers, or in small towns and v...

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