Alastair Humphreys

Alastair Humphreys is a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. He has cycled around the world, rowed the Atlantic Ocean and walked a lap of the M25 – one of his pioneering microadventures. These exploits have strongly informed his career as a prize-winning writer for both children and adults.

For children, he is the author of the bestselling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy, a series of novels for 9–12-year-olds based on his own journey, and The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean, is a similarly novelised version of his transatlantic crossing. It was shortlisted for the Stanford’s Children’s Travel Book of the Year. His book Great Adventurers won that award as well as the Teach Primary Award for Non-Fiction.

For adults, he described his bicycle trip in Moods of Future Joys, Thunder and Sunshine and Ten Lessons from the Road. His book Local, about exploring close to home, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize.

He received the Royal Geographical Society’s Ness Award for his longstanding contribution to promoting a greater understanding of our world and encouraging public engagement with the outdoors.

He is a qualified teacher.