My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure Audiobook (Free)

A Financial Times Summertime Book of 2019

Seasoned adventurer Alastair Humphreys pushes himself to his extremely limitations – busking his method across Spain having a violin he can barely play.

In 1935 a young Englishman named Laurie Lee found its way to Spain. He previously never been overseas; had hardly even left the calm village he grew up in. His idea was to walk through the united states, making profits for food by playing his violin in pubs and plazas.

Nearly a hundred years about My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure later on, the book Laurie Lee wrote – As I Walked Away One Midsummer Morning – inspired Alastair Humphreys. It produced him fall in love with Spain – the scenery and the soul – and with Laurie’s style of travel. He travelled slow, lived basically, slept on hilltops, relished spontaneity, and adored conversations with the various people he met along the popular and dusty road.

For 15 years, Alastair dreamed of retracing Laurie Lee’s footsteps, but could never see through the hurdle of being distinctly unmusical. This year, he went anyway. The trip was his most terrifying however, risking failure and humiliation each day, and selecting himself truly susceptible to the rhythms of the road and of his personal life. But along the way, he discovered humility, redemption and triumph. It had been a very good adventure.