Alastair Humphreys - My Midsummer Morning

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A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019Seasoned adventurer Alastair Humphreys pushes himself to his very limits – busking his way across Spain with a violin he can barely play.In 1935 a young Englishman named Laurie Lee arrived in Spain. He had never been overseas; had hardly even left the quiet village he grew up in. His idea was to walk through the country, earning money for food by playing his violin in bars and plazas.Nearly a century later, the book Laurie Lee wrote – As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning – inspired Alastair Humphreys. It made him fall in love with Spain – the landscapes and the spirit – and with Laurie's style of travel. He travelled slow, lived simply, slept on hilltops, relished spontaneity, and loved conversations with the different people he met along the hot and dusty road.For 15 years, Alastair dreamed of retracing Laurie Lee’s footsteps, but could never get past the hurdle of being distinctly unmusical. This year, he decided to go anyway. The journey was his most terrifying yet, risking failure and humiliation every day, and finding himself truly vulnerable to the rhythms of the road and of his own life. But along the way, he found humility, redemption and triumph. It was a very good adventure.

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Copyright Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Prologue Imagine Life One Moment Laurie Direction Adventure Becks Music Lesson Progress Into Spain First Play Hope Encouragement Preparation First Walk First Night Marriage Dawn The Pram in the Hall Swifts Kleos Reverence Polar Grace Help Choices Fear Casting One Day Lost Rhythm Baggage First Light Buscando Manna Health Check Bravery Privilege Camping Changes Hitchhiking Loneliness The People of this Earth Siesta Daily Bread The Music in Me Jungle Postman The Greatest Day Evening Last Light Treasure Coffee Kindness Gambling The Art of Busking Alone Fiesta Respite Chorizo Cassiopeia Party Forest Permission Last Days Mountains Way Back River Thunder Road Last Play The Wall Last Night Into Madrid Home from Abroad Reward It’s All Right Photos from the Adventure Acknowledgements The Violin Case About the Author About the Book Books by Alastair Humphreys Books by Laurie Lee About the Publisher

William Collins

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London SE1 9GF

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This eBook edition published by William Collins in 2019

Copyright © Alastair Humphreys, 2019

Extracts from As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London, on behalf of the Beneficiaries of the Estate of Laurie Lee.

Copyright © Laurie Lee 1969

Here Comes the Sun , words and music by George Harrison © 1969 Harrisongs Limited. All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured.

Used by permission of Hal Leonard Europe Limited

Cover and interior illustrations by Neil Gower

All photographs © Alastair Humphreys

Alastair Humphreys asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this eBook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Source ISBN: 9780008331856

Ebook Edition © May 2019 ISBN: 9780008331832

Version: 2020-07-18

Dedication Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Prologue Imagine Life One Moment Laurie Direction Adventure Becks Music Lesson Progress Into Spain First Play Hope Encouragement Preparation First Walk First Night Marriage Dawn The Pram in the Hall Swifts Kleos Reverence Polar Grace Help Choices Fear Casting One Day Lost Rhythm Baggage First Light Buscando Manna Health Check Bravery Privilege Camping Changes Hitchhiking Loneliness The People of this Earth Siesta Daily Bread The Music in Me Jungle Postman The Greatest Day Evening Last Light Treasure Coffee Kindness Gambling The Art of Busking Alone Fiesta Respite Chorizo Cassiopeia Party Forest Permission Last Days Mountains Way Back River Thunder Road Last Play The Wall Last Night Into Madrid Home from Abroad Reward It’s All Right Photos from the Adventure Acknowledgements The Violin Case About the Author About the Book Books by Alastair Humphreys Books by Laurie Lee About the Publisher

For Sarah

‘Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces.’

Epigraph Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Prologue Imagine Life One Moment Laurie Direction Adventure Becks Music Lesson Progress Into Spain First Play Hope Encouragement Preparation First Walk First Night Marriage Dawn The Pram in the Hall Swifts Kleos Reverence Polar Grace Help Choices Fear Casting One Day Lost Rhythm Baggage First Light Buscando Manna Health Check Bravery Privilege Camping Changes Hitchhiking Loneliness The People of this Earth Siesta Daily Bread The Music in Me Jungle Postman The Greatest Day Evening Last Light Treasure Coffee Kindness Gambling The Art of Busking Alone Fiesta Respite Chorizo Cassiopeia Party Forest Permission Last Days Mountains Way Back River Thunder Road Last Play The Wall Last Night Into Madrid Home from Abroad Reward It’s All Right Photos from the Adventure Acknowledgements The Violin Case About the Author About the Book Books by Alastair Humphreys Books by Laurie Lee About the Publisher

‘You asked for it. It’s up to you now.’

‘But I was in Spain, and to the new life beginning.’

Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Prologue

Imagine

Life

One Moment

Laurie

Direction

Adventure

Becks

Music Lesson

Progress

Into Spain

First Play

Hope

Encouragement

Preparation

First Walk

First Night

Marriage

Dawn

The Pram in the Hall

Swifts

Kleos

Reverence

Polar

Grace

Help

Choices

Fear

Casting

One Day

Lost

Rhythm

Baggage

First Light

Buscando

Manna

Health Check

Bravery

Privilege

Camping

Changes

Hitchhiking

Loneliness

The People of this Earth

Siesta

Daily Bread

The Music in Me

Jungle

Postman

The Greatest Day

Evening

Last Light

Treasure

Coffee

Kindness

Gambling

The Art of Busking

Alone

Fiesta

Respite

Chorizo

Cassiopeia

Party

Forest

Permission

Last Days

Mountains

Way Back

River

Thunder Road

Last Play

The Wall

Last Night

Into Madrid

Home from Abroad

Reward

It’s All Right

Photos from the Adventure

Acknowledgements

The Violin Case

About the Author

About the Book

Books by Alastair Humphreys

Books by Laurie Lee

About the Publisher

Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Prologue Imagine Life One Moment Laurie Direction Adventure Becks Music Lesson Progress Into Spain First Play Hope Encouragement Preparation First Walk First Night Marriage Dawn The Pram in the Hall Swifts Kleos Reverence Polar Grace Help Choices Fear Casting One Day Lost Rhythm Baggage First Light Buscando Manna Health Check Bravery Privilege Camping Changes Hitchhiking Loneliness The People of this Earth Siesta Daily Bread The Music in Me Jungle Postman The Greatest Day Evening Last Light Treasure Coffee Kindness Gambling The Art of Busking Alone Fiesta Respite Chorizo Cassiopeia Party Forest Permission Last Days Mountains Way Back River Thunder Road Last Play The Wall Last Night Into Madrid Home from Abroad Reward It’s All Right Photos from the Adventure Acknowledgements The Violin Case About the Author About the Book Books by Alastair Humphreys Books by Laurie Lee About the Publisher

AND HERE I WAS at last. I had imagined this moment for years. My dream was finally happening. I had worked hard to make it this far, spurred on by the anticipation of how happy I would be. Yet now that it was beginning, I felt only afraid and lonely. I breathed deeply to calm myself. The air here smelled different from home – warm and dry. I looked beyond the pine trees and the red tiled roofs, over the blue bay, and on to the distant, forested hills. I wanted to flee and hide up in those hills. They looked so quiet and so safe. But I could not leave. At least, not yet. Before I escaped this town there was one task I must do, the burden that was scaring me. I needed to play my violin.

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