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  • The Great Outdoors

    Ask an Adventurer

    Nov 05, 2021 2 minutes
    by Alastair Humphreys
    Published by Eye Books, £9.99 (paperback)

    is a loaded term. Does it mean the actual outdoor activities that make our heart beat faster, or is it all the other stuff so often surrounding it: the corporate speaking events, the book deals, the by Alastair Humphreys is an unusually (perhaps even uniquely) candid look into what the life of a working adventurer is really like.

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