The Backyard Adventurer, 9781922267306
Paperback
Find adventure in your own backyard, one bean at a time.

The Backyard Adventurer

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

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    5 May 2021

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Summary

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 way…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781922267306
ISBN-10:1922267309
Author:Beau Miles
Publisher:Brio Books
Imprint:Brio Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:5 May 2021
Weight:340g
Dimensions:115mm x 258mm x 196mm
About The Author

Beau Miles

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).

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