'Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap' Geographical Adventure - something that's new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity.

Following on from "Microadventures", this is a guide to setting out on a grand adventure. Looks at the scary, enormous obstacles that are stopping us and shows us that there are ways around them. With hard-won wisdom from people who have undertaken extraordinary journeys, by boat, boot, car, kayak, bicycle and motorbike.