My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure

Adventurer Alastair Humphreys has cycled around the world and rowed across the Atlantic ocean, but the most daunting adventure of his life was yet to come. For years, he had dreamed of retracing author Laurie Lee's footsteps, busking his way across Spain, a violin his only source of income. The only problem? Unlike Laurie Lee, Alastair couldn't play the violin. The thought of busking in public, depending on the violin and the goodwill of strangers, terrified him more than any previous adventure. But so too did the looming prospect of middle age, growing up and settling down. So eventually he decided to go anyway. Risking failure and humiliation every day, he made himself truly vulnerable to the rhythms of the road and of his own life. And along the way, he found humility, redemption, direction and rediscovered a life of adventure. Book jacket.