Red Széll

And it's the foundation text for R.C.

Shaw to retrace some of the formative steps of Joshua Slocum in Nova Scotia.

And as such, he takes a very heavily laden cargo bike.

his surfboard and a tent, a hammock tent, and embarks on his own epic journey.

And in this clip, we can hear exactly why he wanted to do that.

And I think, you know, you can hear from that, travel does make you a better person.

Putting your phone aside and actually interacting with other people, putting yourself at the mercy of their hospitality, which is exactly what Joshua Slocum did in his single-handed sailing around the world.

He had no money.

He...

He had to put himself at the mercy of the elements and his fellow human beings.

And he was truly having an adventure.

And if we can use these old texts that you and I have been talking about to inspire our own adventure, our own adventures,

Even if it's just getting a little bit out of our comfort zone during the school holidays with the kids, then, you know, that can be very, very enlightening and remind us that we are all adventurers at the end of the day.

Yeah, absolutely.

So a fabulous book.

It takes you to places that most of the rest of the world is never going to go and explore themselves.

I remember reading a contemporary account of when Agatha Christie published her two books, Murder in Mesopotamia and Death on the Nile.

And people were saying, oh, my God, we really want to get out there.

We really want to go and see the pyramids because her her discussion of these things that people might have seen a photo of or a drawing of.

But her actually her characters getting up close and, you know, walking through the columns of Luxor really inspired people to.