The Backyard Adventurer, Beau Miles
The Backyard Adventurer, Beau Miles
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The Backyard Adventurer

Author: Beau Miles

Narrator: Beau Miles

Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/06/2021


Synopsis

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.

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim

Beau's book makes me want to think good and unusual thoughts.......more

Goodreads review by Steve

Let me start off by saying: I love Beau's videos. He's a creative mind and a great storyteller, and might be my favorite YouTuber. While I enjoyed this book overall, I found it impossible to pick up its "voice". I had trouble reading the rhythm of the sentences in my head - maybe because I'm from the......more

Goodreads review by Austin

Very satisfied with this. At some point Beau seeks to dub himself a hybrid of Socrates and Steve Irwin, to which I couldn't agree more of. In the same vein of "Greenlights" by McConaughey, Beau has a fascinating life philosophy that is geared towards awareness and observation. "The life unexamined i......more

Goodreads review by Jacob

Beau leads a humbly inspiring life. Insight into how he does it in any form is much appreciated. With Beauisms scattered throughout this book, Beau explains how he seeks adventure in the 21st century, largely seperated from risk and ego and acknowledging the patriarchy in how it has catered to adven......more