Starting from today, for the next 4 days, I’ve made all my Kindle books that I have control of either free or as cheap as possible. Please do take this chance to download some of them, and forward this email to anyone you know who reads on Kindle!

I know there is a daft amount of stuff in this newsletter today, but I want to point out that the ’50 newsletters ago’ archive down near the bottom is particularly good this week…

• Anyone feel that they need a dose of beautiful good news for once?
• The real life Forrest Gump: why did Rob Pope run across the US five times?
• What Cold-Water Swimming Teaches About Mindfulness. (It’s not just a momentary mood booster, but a reminder of what we’re capable of…)
• Memoirs, Biographies, and Anthologies by and about Woman Climbers. (And hats off to this brave woman climber.)
• This film documents Ben Harris’ love of woodwork and boat building, how he acquired his skills, and how incredible it is to be able to take something that you’ve built with your own hands out onto the water and sail it across the sea.
• For thousands of years, Yupik and Inuit people have made snow goggles from various materials (bone, wood, whale baleen) to help protect their eyes from the sun and, more importantly, from the sunlight reflected off the Arctic snow. (Which reminds me of these brilliant Inuit driftwood ‘maps‘).
• And a reminder that, starting from today, for the next 4 days, I’ve made all my Kindle books that I have control of either free or as cheap as possible. Please do take this chance to download some of them, and forward this email to anyone you know who reads on Kindle!

Let me know if you have a relevant project that my readers would appreciate. Here’s what you guys have been up to recently:

• “Passing through a place provides very little context in terms of truly understanding that place – like reading a single page from a book.” The solution: run every street of your home town.
• Islandeering – an explorer’s guide to the islands of Britain.
• World-First Expedition Across Australia and the Planet by Solar Powered Tuk Tuk.
• A 20-second good deed if you use Twitter. Retweet any of these ideas that take your fancy and help spread their story.
• “I think I might try to run 52 marathons in 52 weeks this year and see how it goes.”
• Tom’s World Walk. An adventure I’m enjoying following on Instagram.
• I have launched a new podcast called The Doorstep Mile. You can subscribe for free here.
• This month I’ve published interviews with a man pushing a raft from Liverpool to London to deliver a piano, the boss of Friends of the Peak District, the founder of one of the adventure community’s most important publishers, and a chat about how we need to reclaim time to think in our life if we are to do meaningful things with our life.
• Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. Shocking but important.
• How to Get a World-Famous Actor in your Short Film.