July is here, and summer holidays are on their way. Perhaps what you need to make it even better is… an adventurous book for your kids to read! 

I’ve turned my stories of cycling round the world and rowing the Atlantic into books for children aged roughly 7-11. I also have published a big picture book with the stories of the great adventurers who inspired me, and another one to remind kids that things don’t always work out as planned, but they usually work out OK.

These books include my best-selling book, my worst-selling book, and one described by an irate reviewer as ‘more suited to a child than adult.’ High praise indeed. 

If you haven’t read any of them, please would you give one a try or buy one as a gift? You can buy them on my website in the UK, or on the online bookstore of your choice everywhere else. Thank you!

• The brilliant Beau Miles is going to plant a forest paid for by YouTube views. Please click this link, and share with your friends.
• Adventure Uncovered’s purpose is to influence social and environmental change through responsible adventure.
• This website renders every single road within a city. Kind of beautiful. And you can put it on a mug.
• That unremarkable little brown bird in the garden might well be more hardcore than any self-proclaimed human ‘adventurer’.
• The story of the most dramatic round the world sailing race.
• Source to Sea down the River Thames WITHOUT Leaving it. A fun film.

My big effort this year is my A+P newsletter. But I’m well aware you don’t all need more emails from me! So here’s just one recent post:

• A Right to Roam Rewilded Rivers

Let me know if you have a relevant project that my readers would appreciate.

•  Olivia, recipient of the Royal Geographical Society’s 2024 Neville Shulman Challenge Award, spent a month living in an indigenous Makushi Amerindian village on the edge of Guyana’s Amazon rainforest—one of Earth’s last wild places—to document how climate change and biodiversity loss are reshaping both the land and the lives of those who call it home.

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• The Next Challenge Grant is an annual bursary for adventures. It has funded over 70 different adventures and you can apply for one now! (You can also donate for other people have their own adventures.)
• Are you a female aged between 18 & 26? Or do you know someone planning an adventure? Here’s a grant to help your adventure.
• A wonderful demonstration of how great it is to go and properly explore your home town or city.
• The Kid Should See This is a brilliant collection of 5,000+ videos, curated for teachers and parents who want to share smarter, more meaningful media in the classroom and at home. I find it endlessly fascinating!
• The Rough Stuff Fellowship Is a celebration of doing hard things, together. The world’s first off-road cycling club came from all classes but were united by their love of the wild and a shared belief that a bike could get them anywhere they dreamed of. Amen.
• Mountain names in Wales are to revert to their original Welsh names. Snowdon will be ‘Yr Wyddfa’ and Snowdonia will be ‘Eryri’, for example.
• Walking almost 7,000 miles of coast with only a tent and meagre rations, photographer Quintin Lake set out to capture the beauty of our island nation through all the seasons.
• Six clear, constructive, impactful, doable actions to help the environment. Will you Take the Jump for a month?

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Cheers,

Alastair