Alastair Humphreys Audiobooks

46,000 miles by bicycle in Around the World by Bike, then the case for smaller journeys

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Who is Alastair Humphreys?

Alastair Humphreys is an English adventurer and author whose defining feat took four years: a 46,000-mile bicycle journey around the world. It is the kind of undertaking that sounds invented until you sit with the numbers, and it earned him recognition as a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2012.

What makes Humphreys interesting, though, is what he did next. Rather than chasing ever bigger expeditions, he championed the microadventure – the short, local, accessible trip that fits around a job and a family. The idea has genuinely shifted how many Britons think about the outdoors, and it made him something rarer than an adventurer: a useful one.

Alastair Humphreys in audiobooks

Alastair Humphreys: Around the World by Bike covers the journey that made his name, and it suits audio unusually well. A four-year, 46,000-mile ride is fundamentally a story about time – long days, slow continents, gradual change – and listening recreates that rhythm in a way skimming a page never quite does. Humphreys tells it without self-mythologising, and UK listeners get the rare pleasure of an epic delivered in a modest register. Start here, then go and plan something small of your own; by his own logic, that is rather the point.