"Agile, wryly funny and wise." - <b>Robert Macfarlane</b><br /><br /> 'Alastair Humphreys is the consummate roamer: big of heart, curious of mind, light of step' - <b>Amy-Jane Beer, winner of the 2023 Wainwright Prize</b><br /><br /> 'A paean to the benefits of determined noticing. What really shines through its pages is Humphreys' omnivorous curiosity' <b>Financial Times</b><br /><br /> 'Thanks to some genuinely thoughtful writing about planet, place and political purpose, Humphreys finds beauty in the scruffy margins and makes readers look anew at what might easily be familiar or forgotten' <b>The Observer</b><br /><br /> 'A vivid, wry, angry, passionate read from Mr. Adventure' <b>Saga Magazine</b><br /><br /> 'I wholeheartedly recommend the book. Anything that establishes the view that exploration is an attitude, not an activity, has to be a good thing. The physical bounds of our children will be smaller than ours. It is up to us to show that by rewilding the mind and finding adventure in the commonplace, a life constrained by necessity is still a life worth living' <b>Chris Gibson Wildlife</b> <br /><br />'Witty and gritty, affectionate and mildly censorious, eager and sometimes weary. This is still a book of a traveller and adventurer - it's just he can cycle home quite quickly each day. Readable, well-written, stimulating' <b>Mark Avery</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><b><br /></b>

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024'Agile, wryly funny and wise' Robert MacfarlaneA search for nearby nature and wildness After years of expeditions all over the world, adventurer Alastair Humphreys spends a year exploring the detailed local map around his home.Can this unassuming landscape, marked by the glow of city lights and the hum of busy roads, hold any surprises for the world traveller or satisfy his wanderlust? Could a single map provide a lifetime of exploration? Discovering more about the natural world than in all his years in remote environments, he learns the value of truly getting to know his neighbourhood. An ode to slowing down, Local is a celebration of curiosity and time spent outdoors, as well as a rallying cry to protect the wild places on our doorstep.
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Alastair Humphreys goes in search of nature and wildness in his local environment
Longlisted: Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing

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ISBN
9781785633676
Publisert
2024-01-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Eye Books
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

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Alastair Humphreys is a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year.

He has cycled around the world, rowed the Atlantic Ocean and walked a lap of the M25 - one of his pioneering microadventures. He is the best-selling author of 14 books, including Great Adventurers, which won the Stanford's Children's Travel Book of the Year and the Teach Primary Award for Non-Fiction.

He has written eight books for Eye including the best-selling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy, a series of novels for 9-12-year-olds based on the real-life adventures he recounted in Moods of Future Joys, Thunder and Sunshine and Ten Lessons from the Road. His more recent The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is a similarly novelised version of his transatlantic crossing. He is a qualified teacher and host of the Living Adventurously podcast.