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2 months ago | 
outlooktraveller.com | Kapka Kassabova |Sophy Roberts |Alastair Humphreys |Taran N Khan
While many perceive Kabul and Afghanistan solely through the lens of conflict and turmoil, Khan offers a profound and captivating perspective that reveals the city's true essence. Her lyrical, personal, and meditative portrayal captures the vibrant life of Kabul—its bookstores, cinemas, wedding halls, solemn graveyards, and poppy fields. Though it's not often one encounters a woman walking the streets of Kabul, Khan made this her daily reality for years.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
internazionale.it | Alastair Humphreys
“Istruzioni per vivere una vita: prestare attenzione. Stupirsi. Raccontarla”. – Mary Oliver“Alla fine, penso che un’unica catena montuosa sia sufficiente per un’intera vita”. – Rickey Gates
Per più di vent’anni la mia attività preferita è stata lasciarmi alle spalle la casa, con tutti i suoi legami e le sue routine, e mettermi in viaggio per andare altrove.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
ft.com | Alastair Humphreys
When I decided to spend a whole year exploring the map that covers the area around my house, just outside London, I hoped it would help...
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
noemamag.com | Alastair Humphreys
Credits Alastair Humphreys is a British adventurer and author. He has bicycled around the world, walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic, run six marathons in the Sahara and trekked 1,000 miles through the Empty Quarter. He was named one of National Geographic’s adventurers of the year in 2012. He is the author of 16 books, including “Local: A Search For Nearby Nature And Wildness,” from which this essay is adapted. “Instructions for living a life:Pay attention. Be astonished.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Alastair Humphreys
There is an unfortunate irony that those of us who love the planet’s wild places are causing the most damage to them every time we jet off around the world. Perhaps, though, there is another way to be a modern explorer. I cycled around the world for four years, trekked across southern India, and even walked a lap of the M25. But I recently decided to spend a whole year exploring just the single small map that I live on – an unremarkable span of land on the outskirts of a big city.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Alastair Humphreys
There’s a special place near where I live. To get there, you head down the road with all the fly-tipping, go through the motorway underpass, then turn left by the second-hand car garage and the greasy spoon cafe with a spelling mistake in its name. When you reach the factory with the rusting metal pipes and enormous concrete chimney, push through the scraggy bushes opposite and you have arrived. Blond reedbeds surround you, head high, whispering in the wind.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
outsideonline.com | Alastair Humphreys
One motivation for exploring a square each week, come rain or shine, was to make being out in nature part of my routine. I hoped that becoming connected with where I live, with its weather and seasons, would keep me attuned to the seedlings pushing through pavements, the migrating birds passing overhead, the provenance of the food I eat, and reveal some interesting new running routes too.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Alastair Humphreys
Alastair Humphreys exploring his local woods by bike A realisation that struck me after cycling a lap of the planet was not how much of the world I had seen, but how little. I had imagined that four years of pedalling through 60 countries and crossing oceans by boats would quench my wanderlust. In fact, it did the opposite.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
ca.style.yahoo.com | Alastair Humphreys
Alastair Humphreys exploring his local woods by bikeA realisation that struck me after cycling a lap of the planet was not how much of the world I had seen, but how little. I had imagined that four years of pedalling through 60 countries and crossing oceans by boats would quench my wanderlust. In fact, it did the opposite. It inspired me to chase fresh adventures and to experience more places.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Alastair Humphreys |Tom Chesshyre |Ed Caesar |Ed Douglas
LoveReading Says About Press Reviews LoveReading Says If anyone else had written a book about exploring the area around where they live it may not have landed quite as well as this one by Alastair Humphreys, who has cycled around the world, rowed the Atlantic and undertaken all manner of further adventures, macro and micro in his search for... what exactly?
