Explorer & Adventurer Biographies

The globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth. For millennia, the 'wild' was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from joining them, either through physical control or powerful myths about what would happen if they ventured beyond the city wall or village boundary. So,...

A captivating biography of one of the world's greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir. Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize "Ruby Lal coaxes the remarkable Gulbadan out from the shadows of history." — Sara Wheeler, Wall Street Journal Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first-ever biography of Princess...

A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir Situated in the early decades of the powerful Mughal Empire, this first-ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and a unique perspective on the multicultural society in which she lived. Following a migratory childhood...

An extraordinary man, who advanced human knowledge on many fronts, Sir Aurel Stein (1862-1943) pursued dramatic adventure with scientific purpose. Jeannette Mirsky has drawn from Stein's voluminous outpouring of books and articles as well as from his letters and unpublished archival materials to produce a lively and definitive biography of this archaeological explorer, geographer, historical topographer, and linguist. "[Mirsky] has...

An extensively revised edition of Tim Jeal's classic biography of the great explorer David Livingstone David Livingstone (1813–1873) is revered as one of history’s greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo River. In this exciting new edition, Jeal draws on fresh sources and archival...

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the...

In 1908, at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for thirteen years in Peking's Forbidden City, but with none of the power his birth afforded him. The remainder of Pu Yi's life was lived out...

Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more than two-thirds of our planet. We only see the entrance to it. Beyond that entrance is a world...

The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators, men who had shown brilliance as they ascended the ranks in the Royal Navy. They were also bloody good sailors. From ship's boy to vice-admiral, discover how much more there...

Join renowned adventurer Frank Wolf on a gripping and epic journey through Canada's unforgiving northern wilderness. Renowned adventurer Frank Wolf annually embarks on a series of long-distance wilderness journeys. A little while back, he attempted a 280 km ski journey across Baffin Island, a 1,750 km canoe trip through the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, and a 550 km ski retracing...

Martin Hibbert was left paralysed from the waist down by the Manchester Arena bombing, which killed twenty-two people on 22 May 2017. Martin's teenage daughter Eve was one of the 940 injured, in Eve's case, gravely. The dad from Bolton has since become a leading campaigner both for victims of the atrocity and those with spinal cord injuries. Determined to...

The invigorating true story of a man and his dog who circled the globe on foot. After the death of a close friend at seventeen, Tom Turcich resolved to make the most out of life; to travel and be forced into adventure; to experience and understand the world. On April 2nd, 2015, he set out to see it all one...

'A riveting, unvarnished and wholly unforgettable portrait of America’s most storied commandos at war.' - Joby Warrick, author of Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account of SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s awe-inspiring 400-mission career. O’Neill describes his idyllic childhood in Butte, Montana; his...

An inspiring, moving, and unblinking view of a battered climber who refuses to turn his back on the mountains. Born in Bolton, England, Paul Pritchard started climbing when he was 16 years old. In time, he became one of the foremost British climbers of the 1980s and 1990s, climbing difficult routes across the United Kingdom and around the world. His...

Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping...readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas. BOOKLIST A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way. When Guirec Soudee was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across...

An inspiring book about love in its purest form. - JANE GOODALL, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace With the heartwrenching vulnerability of The Glass Castle and the spiritual journey of H is for Hawk, this stunning debut memoir tells the story of a traumatised young woman's friendship with an injured dolphin whose habitat...

From balancing on a wingtip to circling with eagles, Take Flight tells the stories of Australian women who have leapt, tumbled and dived, and reached for the stars. Helicopter pilot Alida Soemawinata ascends over Kata Tjuta. Paramotor pilot Sacha Dench follows migrating swans from the Arctic tundra to the English countryside. Birdwoman Stef Walter wing walks. Hot air balloonist Donna...

The extraordinary stories of the fearless women who set their sights on the sea in an all-male world, paving the way for the female sailing superstars of today. Gender issues are stark at sea. Historically, a ship’s crew is all male, and although vessels are referred to as ‘she’, women’s contributions to sailing have been largely ignored, if not actively...

At the age of sixty, and having lived with Parkinson's disease for over ten years, Guy Deacon CBE set out on one last adventure: to drive solo from his home in the UK 18,000 miles and through twenty-five countries to Cape Town on the southern tip of Africa. This incredible journey, across Europe and down the full length of Africa,...

Updated with an Epilogue examining new evidence about the actual perpetrators. Using newly declassified information, Dick Russell builds on four decades of painstaking research in On the Trail of the JFK Assassins, offering one of the most comprehensive and authoritative examinations of the assassination of our thirty-fifth president. Included are revelations, such as the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald was...

The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—“a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion” (Harper’s Bazaar). My Own Words showcases Ruth Ginsburg’s astonishing intellectual range (The New Republic). In this collection, Justice Ginsburg discusses...

This debut memoir is at once a captivating travelogue and an introspective look at what it takes to navigate the unfamiliar and find your way back home. Meghan J. Ward was 21 years old when she journeyed across the country for a summer job in the Canadian Rockies. As an inexperienced hiker from the suburbs of the nation's capital, she...

When Harold Bell Lasseter disappeared in late 1930, it could have been the end of a mystery. Thirty-three years earlier, he had staggered out of the desert, almost dead, his pockets bulging with gold, claiming to have found a 15-kilometre gold reef. The mystery deepened when he and a surveyor returned to the isolated and mysterious ranges where the reef...

WINNER OF THE 2023 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior. I'm in awe of her strength and courage' - Selena Gomez 'An incredibly powerful story' Sunday Independent In the Shadow of the Mountain has all the elements a great memoir requires - a strong voice, cinematic prose, a hero to root for - in...

Anya Liftig grew up with a foot in two very different worlds: While her mother's upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her "holler rat," her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family. Anya spent school years in affluent Connecticut and summers in the holler. Shaped by the experience, she would go on to win a scholarship...

Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it's nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific. Two thousand ships have been wrecked on the bar since the first European ship dared to try to cross it in the late 18th century. Since...

George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smoulderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image—that of a hypermacho sex god—loomed large in the pop culture of his day. It also hid—for a time—the secret he fought...

Near the death zone on K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Lisa Thompson searched for the strength to continue climbing. Her choices were clear: give in to her doubts and descend or push past her own limits and continue up the mountain's steep face. Defiance had provoked Thompson to enter the male-dominated world of high-altitude mountaineering, but defiance could only take...

On 6 June, 1924, George Mallory donned an oxygen set and set off for the summit of Everest with his young partner Andrew Irvine. The next day, they were glimpsed through clouds heading upwards, but after that they were never seen again. Whether they died on the way up or on the way down, no one knows. In the years...

Fallen by Mick Conefrey is a marvellously researched and written story about the enigma of George Mallory and the fulfilment of his "Because it's there!" 'Mick Conefrey's gripping account explores the 1924 expedition and the enigma of the man who nearly made it to the summit.' Financial Times 'Mick Conefrey has become one of our finest gazetteers of the Himalaya.'...

The epic, multi-millennia story of humanity's obsession with the North Pole, from Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge who travelled there in 1990. Throughout recorded human time, few places on Earth have inspired as much fascination as the North Pole. This is an otherworldly place where the sun rises and stays aloft for six whole months before setting, plunging the expanse of...

The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper, and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten by the tramping bug early. He began going on epic trips as a young boy, beyond the farm and along the coast. During these wanderings, he met old folk living simply in tiny huts out the back of farms and on clifftops, and swaggers walking in...

11 June, 1930. On a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, a curious steel ball is lowered 3000ft into the sea. Crumpled up inside, gazing through the three-inch thick quartz windows, sits the famed zoologist William Beebe. With uncontrollable excitement, he watches as bizarre, never-before-seen creatures drift out of the inky blackness, illuminated by explosions of bioluminescence, bathing...

Fallen by Mick Conefrey is a marvellously researched and written story about the enigma of George Mallory and the fulfilment of his "Because it's there!" 'Mick Conefrey's gripping account explores the 1924 expedition and the enigma of the man who nearly made it to the summit.' — Financial Times 'Mick Conefrey has become one of our finest gazetteers of the...

Doctor Max Jacobson, whom the Secret Service under President John F. Kennedy code-named Dr. Feelgood, developed a unique "energy formula" that altered the paths of some of the twentieth century's most iconic figures, including President and Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis. JFK received his first injection (a special mix of "vitamins and hormones," according to Jacobson) just...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Now we clung to a battered little boat, 'alone, alone – all, all alone; alone on a wide, wide sea.' The ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 was to be the first land-crossing of Antarctica. When disaster strikes, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s party has no choice but to make an...

This is the astounding story of the six female aviators who battled to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane. In the early 20th century, the dream of crossing the Atlantic by air was as potent as putting a man on the moon would be 50 years later. But many people believed women too fragile and...

He's climbed Everest not long after a heart bypass operation, he's run seven marathons on seven continents, he's hauled loaded sledges across both polar ice caps and he's circumnavigated the earth... Ran Fiennes truly is the world's greatest explorer, and this book celebrates his 80th birthday by showcasing his greatest achievements in his own words. Featuring interviews and tributes from...

In this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). A Prussian nobleman born into the age of European Enlightenment, Humboldt was a contemporary of Napoleon, Simón Bolívar, and Charles Darwin. As a naturalist and scholar, he travelled the world, from the Americas to Central Asia, and recorded...

Join Bobby Bolton and his trusted dog, Red, as they drive from Wigan across the world – and fall in love with life again . . . When Bobby’s eleven-year relationship broke down, he thought he’d hit rock bottom. Then a bad economic turn and a run of unlucky business deals drove his hard-earned construction company into the ground, and...

September 1, 1985. The RMS Titanic, which has been missing since April 15, 1912, is found in the North Atlantic where it lies at a depth of 3,821 metres. Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a commander in the French Navy, directed underwater research of part of many expeditions to the wreck, from 1987 until his untimely death in 2023. With hundreds of hours...

A True Story Of Risk, Resilience and Survival After a life-changing neck injury left him paralysed, Ed Jackson defied the odds to walk again. Driven by a renewed perspective on life and determination to push his limits, Ed set out to climb Himlung Himal—a 7,126-metre peak deep in Nepal’s Himalayas. But as the climb unfolded, what began as a daring...

Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more than two-thirds of our planet. We only see the entrance to it. Beyond that entrance is a world...

The secrets to a good life drawn from the extreme experiences of a seasoned explorer. Surviving extreme conditions can teach us to lead a fulfilled life. No one knows this better than Erling Kagge, who was the first man in history to reach all of the Earth's poles by foot—the North, the South, and the summit of Everest. In The...

The Joy of Living is a story that touches the soul and offers heart-warming, fascinating, and deep insights on the hard road from diagnosis to treatment and eventual survival from throat cancer. Barry Eaton, author and radio presenter, describes the careful preparations he made for his journey, using his experience and understanding of the spirit world to deal with and...

An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination. Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and inspired both because of his work and his legendary lifestyle. A scion of American industry turned explorer of Africa and environmental advocate, Beard...

The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra. During those perilous years surviving in squalid conditions, Sister Jeffrey kept a secret diary of day-to-day events which, after the war, was turned...

The unlikely and sometimes harrowing journey of an iconic evangelist, known to millions as simply Reverend Ike, will draw you into his remarkable story of rising from extreme poverty and leading millions of poor Blacks to unprecedented financial success, independence, and joyful living by understanding the profound Biblical promises of prosperity. Lovingly known by his ardent and enthusiastic followers as...

The story of Scott Donaldson's relentless journey to be the first person to cross the Tasman Sea solo in a kayak Unpredictable and unforgiving, the Tasman Sea is one of the most hostile stretches of water in the world. An Australian adventurer attempted to kayak across in 2007, disappearing without a trace. In 2018, Kiwi adventurer Scott Donaldson spent two...

The official biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem ‘My Country.’ ‘I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains…’ Though many Australians know lines from Dorothea Mackellar’s classic poem ‘My Country’ by heart, very little has been written about the poet’s extraordinary life. From her childhood and youth in Sydney’s Point Piper,...

The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map, now with a foreword from Flinders' great-great-great-grand-daughters on the 250th anniversary of his birth. In 1810, Matthew Flinders made his final voyage home to his beloved wife, Ann, his body ravaged by the deprivations of years of imprisonment by the French. Four years later, at...

The Big Hop tells the powerful true story of the first flight across the Atlantic and the ordinary heroes who risked their lives in the pursuit of progress. 'David Rooney is an expert storyteller with a big heart, capturing not only the perils faced by the intrepid airmen who attempted the flight, but also their humanity.’ – JOHN LANCASTER, author...

In this memoir, iconic singer Linda Ronstadt weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and ‘70s. Tracing the timeline of her remarkable life, Linda Ronstadt, whose forty-five-year career has encompassed a wide array of musical styles, presents a compelling narrative. Born into...

‘Brilliant, clear, and humane’ Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love ‘Miraculous and hopeful’ Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here ‘Quietly profound … belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild’ New York Times Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular...

The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history. He was the first man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe, although he was killed en route in a battle in the Philippines. In this biography, Stefan Zweig brings to life the Age...

The New York Times bestselling biography of John Wayne: “authoritative and enormously engaging…Eyman takes you through Wayne’s life, his death, and his legend in a detailed, remarkably knowledgeable yet extremely readable way” (Peter Bogdanovich, The New York Times Book Review). John Wayne: The Life and Legend brings to life the celebrated Hollywood icon in this complex portrait by noted film...

In his signature larger-than-life style, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall is a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious, controversial and truly unique life. Born in a small Austrian town in 1947, a year of famine, he was the son of an austere police chief. He dreamed of moving to America to become a bodybuilding champion and a movie star. By the age...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. “That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities far worse than any definite fear.” Edward Prendick, the sole survivor of a shipwreck in the South Pacific, is set ashore on an island...

Sir David Attenborough: A Treasure Trove by Summersdale Publishers is a stunning gift book that celebrates our most beloved broadcaster, biologist, and environmentalist. Packed to the brim with facts, trivia questions, and a selection of his most insightful and inspiring quotes, this book is a treasure for any enthusiast. Sir David Attenborough has spent a lifetime inspiring, educating, and delighting...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his colleagues set out on an expedition to...

The cult psychedelic adventure memoir from the world-famous ethnobotanist Terence McKenna. 'The single most influential spokesperson for organic psychedelics' - The Independent With a new foreword from Dennis McKenna. From renowned ethnobotanist and psychonaut Terence McKenna comes this surreally mind-bending adventure into the depths of the human experience. True Hallucinations is a mesmerising odyssey of McKenna's travels in the Amazon...

The untold story of Britain's most mysterious mountaineering legend—Maurice Wilson—and his heroic attempt to climb Everest. Alone. In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan. He would fly a Gipsy Moth aeroplane from England to Everest, crash land on its lower slopes, then...

This is a substantial selection from the Journals of Captain Cook's voyages, drawn from the four-volume Beaglehole edition. It represents not only Cook's own accounts of his various voyages, but those of his companions, notably the naturalist, Joseph Banks.

The extraordinary new autobiography from adventurer Bear Grylls. The sequel to the multi-million copy selling global phenomenon Mud, Sweat and Tears. 'Grylls takes you behind the scenes on his most thrilling adventures. Riveting.' - Daily Mail 'A rocket-fuelled adventure.' - Tim Peake 'His passion for adventure is truly infectious.' - Gareth Southgate Bear Grylls has always sought out adventure. From...

Latitude is the epic true story of the first ever international scientific expedition to accurately discover the shape of the earth. By knowing the shape of our earth, we can create maps, survive the oceans, follow rivers, navigate the skies, and travel across the globe. This is the story of our world, of how we discovered what no one thought...

Watched by the world with bated breath, read the enthralling inside story of the Thai Cave Rescue from leading rescuer Rick Stanton. Thailand, July 2018. Twelve boys and their football coach vanish into Tham Luang caves. Rick Stanton, a retired Midlands firefighter, races to save them. The boys have been missing for days. Each hour, their chance of escape shrinks....

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may...

Spanning 16 countries, taking 124 days, and covering 18,000 miles, Coffee First, Then the World is the thrilling and unforgettable narrative of Jenny Graham’s solo, record-breaking bike journey around the globe. Teeming with resilience, tenacity, and adventure, this book immerses readers in a race against time and self-discovery. SELECTED FOR THE BBC AND READING AGENCY'S BIG SPORTING READ 2024 SHORTLISTED...

The International BestsellerA Times Best Memoir of 2023 Wavewalker is grippingly vivid and pacey. An electrifying story about an extraordinary childhood, and Heywood tells it with remarkable clarity and assurance. This engrossing book pitches the reader into the highs and lows of a young life spent in the "Wavewalker School of the Sea." "A seven-year-old girl on a seventy-foot yacht,...

Wanderlust by Reid Mitenbuler is an epic narrative following the extraordinary life of Peter Freuchen, an eccentric adventurer whose escapades spanned some of the most remote and perilous frontiers of the twentieth century. The story opens with a heart-pounding scene set in the Arctic wilderness, where Freuchen finds himself buried alive under the snow during a sudden blizzard. As he...

“One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.” —The Washington Post An illuminating and “wholly refreshing” (David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author) biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer in Washington, DC; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman...

**Shortlisted, Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature**Mollie Hughes has explored some of the wildest environments on earth, from the top of Mount Everest to the vast frozen continent of Antarctica, where at the age of 29 she skied solo from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole in a journey of over 700 miles through storm-force winds, eight-day whiteouts and temperatures as...

Jimmy Chin's impressive career as a mountain athlete, National Geographic photographer, New York Times bestselling author, and Academy Award-winning film director has taken him all over the world, from summiting and skiing Mount Everest, to expeditions and climbs from the Sahara to the Himalayas—all while capturing these jaw-dropping endeavours, the people he meets along the way, and the adventures in...

A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more—a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing impractical dreams. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more—a calling, a...

Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping... readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas. BOOKLIST A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way. When Guirec Soudee was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out...

A Thoreauvian account of solitary life in the Scottish Highlands . . . delightful - Kirkus Reviews Ken Smith's advice for staying alive in inclement conditions could equally be applied to achieving hard-won dreams - Geographical Ken Smith comes across as a thoughtful, resourceful and above all humane man . . . inspiring - BBC Countryfile Magazine Could you leave...

Christopher A. Roosa grew up the eldest son of Apollo 14 astronaut and command module pilot Stuart A. Roosa. As a child of the space program, Christopher had a ringside seat at the dinner table of one of twenty-four Americans who had either entered lunar orbit or landed on the moon. The first book written by an offspring of an...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller What do you do when you've lost everything? You bet it all on a mad idea. After a broken heart and a bankrupt business left him at rock bottom, Bobby Bolton made a drunken promise in a Wigan pub: he was going to drive to Australia in a converted truck with his dog, Red. He...

"An inspiring tale, brimming with can-do and positivity." - Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator "A tender, human adventure that reveals what can unfold when you honour a promise and keep paddling forwards." - Alastair Humphreys, author of Microadventures From the bestselling author of Moderate Becoming Good Later comes the hopeful, honest, and humorous story of one woman's attempt...

You could call him Paddington, Adam said casually, Don't name him! I said, as if this was self-evident. Names turn situations into responsibilities. When Mirelle Radley set off for Peru with her cousin Adam, hoping to heal her broken heart, she didn't expect to meet someone who would change the course of her life forever. Meet Paddy, the Peruvian street...