The Backyard Adventurer

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SKU: 9781922267306
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Meaningful and pointless expeditions, self-experiments and the value of other people's junk

By Beau Miles

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Summary

After years of global adventures, Beau Miles returns to his country Victoria neighbourhood to explore the art of local adventure. Through creative and often quirky challenges — from walking 90km to work without supplies to crafting a canoe paddle from scrap — he demonstrates how adventure can be found in everyday surroundings. This book blends humour, authenticity, and insightful reflection, inspiring readers to rediscover wonder and meaning close to home.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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The Backyard Adventurer is ideal for readers passionate about personal growth, outdoor exploration, and creative living. Those who enjoy contemplative self-help books with a sense of humour and practical inspiration will find Beau's stories engaging and motivating.

A book about conscious experimentation with adventure, filled with new ideas on experimental learning, making meaning and inspiration out of tins of beans, bits of rubbish and elbow grease. This is one man’s unique take on the world, how to go about life, and redefines and challenges what it means to go adventuring.

The Backyard Adventurer is about conscious experimentation with adventure, filled with new ideas on experimental learning, making meaning and inspiration out of tins of beans, bits of rubbish and elbow grease. This is one man's unique take on the world, how to go about life, and redefines and challenges what it means to go adventuring.

Description

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 along 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.

YouTuber, new dad, and self-described oddball who needs to shower more, Beau is what happens when you cross Bear Grylls with Casey Neistat. With a PhD in Outdoor Education, a string of successful films under his belt, and a boundless passion for discovery, Beau is a hell of a storyteller.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922267306

Publisher: Brio Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 May 2021

Country: Australia

Imprint: Brio Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 288

Collections

Beau Miles Biography & Memoir Mindset & Self Help Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development Sports

About the Author

You may have heard of Beau before for the challenges he's set himself like walking 90km to work. He makes videos of his adventures doing things the rest of us wouldn't, like when he attempted to paddle around from one side of Africa to the other; when he ran over 650km of the Australian Alpine Walking Track; and going around collecting scrap wood to make his own junk paddle (good to know in case you get stuck up a creek).