The backyard adventurer / Beau Miles.
Material type: TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : Brio Books, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781922267306 (paperback)
- 1922267309 (paperback)
- 9781922598660
- 1922598666
- Backyard adventurer : meaningful and pointless expeditions, self-experiments and the value of other people's junk
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | MILES, B. M643 | Available | 33111010861363 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
YouTuber new dad and self-described oddball who needs to shower more Beau is what happens when you cross Bear Grylls with Bush Tucker Man. With a PhD in Outdoor Education, a string of successful short films under his belt and a boundless passion for discovery, Beau is the real deal.
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 a disused railway line through properties, blackberry thickets, and past inquiring police officers, Beau has been finding ways to satisfy his adventurous spirit close to home.
This book is about conscious experimentation with adventure, making meaning and inspiration out of tins of beans, bits of rubbish and elbow grease. Beau's Backyard exploits are funny, authentic, insightful, and being copied all over the world.
Maps on endpapers.
Backstory, or Pre-beard -- Walk -- Paddle -- Run -- Junk -- Eat -- A mile an hour -- Home -- Pandemic.
"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 a disused railway line through properties, blackberry thickets and past inquiring police officers, Beau has been finding ways to satisfy his adventurous spirit close to home. This book is about conscious experimentation with adventure, making meaning and inspiration out of tins of beans, bits of rubbish and elbow grease. Beau's Backyard exploits are funny, authentic, insightful and being copied all over the world by everyday people. YouTuber, new dad, and self-described oddball who needs to shower more, Beau is what happens when you cross Bear Grylls with Bush Tucker Man. With a PhD in Outdoor Education, a string of successful short films under his belt and a boundless passion for discovery, Beau is the real deal."--www.booktopia.com.au.