I would classify this as a collection of short stories meant to inspire you to get out and explore. The obstacles of time, effort, and money are surmountable. While I was inspired to do some out of the box thinking to create my own microadventures, I was let down in the structure of this guide. There was too much repetition. Too many of the stories cannot occur in the place I live. I was hoping for something even more day trip and family oriented and this is not. 

This book inspired me in so many small, minute ways. In the week I took to read the audiobook (highly recommend audiobooks read by the author themselves), I found myself going on a night walk around my neighborhood, leaving work 30 minutes early one particularly warm and sunny afternoon so I’d have time for playing outside with my son instead of getting home after dark, exploring a path less traveled on my morning walk to find some lovely fog over a pond, booking a cabin at a state park I’ve been wanting to visit about an hour away, and intentionally visiting the playground twice as much as we usually do in a week. 

I got out. More. I lived. More. I showed up and enjoyed my life. More. This is a great book to inspire and challenge and to grow towards intentional adventure even when it seems too exhaustive to figure out.

Sorry Alistair, but I’m not quite to sleeping tentless out in nature just yet though- unless it’s my own backyard. 

This book might make small local adventures accessible if you're an able-bodied adult man. But given the introduction's claim that the book is about making adventures accessible to people of all ages and abilities, everything that followed fell woefully short. If you're a woman, disabled, or adventuring with kids, nearly all of the suggested outings would prove unsafe or impossible. You'd be much better served by picking up a copy of Adventuring Together by Greta Eskridge or There's No Such Thing As Bad Weather by Linda McGurk.