Beau Miles: The Backyard adventurer (EBook, 2021, Brio Books)
1 verkkoaineisto : 202 sivua, 202 pages
English language
Published 2021 by Brio Books.
After years of adventuring around the globe - running, kayaking, hitchhiking, exploring - Beau Miles came back to his block in country Victoria. Staying put for the first time in years, Beau developed a new kind of lifestyle as the Backyard Adventurer. Whether it was walking 90km to work with no provisions, building a canoe paddle out of scavenged scrap or running a disused railway line through properties, blackberry thickets and past inquiring police officers, Beau has been finding ways to satisfy his adventurous spirit close to home. This book is about conscious experimentation with adventure, making meaning and inspiration out of tins of beans, bits of rubbish and elbow grease. Beau's Backyard exploits are funny, authentic, insightful and being copied all over the world by everyday people.
A nice listen detailing some "backyard adventures". I liked the connection to sustainable life and his ideas, but as an audiobook it was mostly a background for chores and sports. The subject and message were spot on, but the presentation left it feeling only quite good. In audiobooks it's sometimes difficult to say if the fault is of the reader or the writer. I enjoyed it, but I felt I would have wanted something more.
