Suggestions for ‘gentle and generic' outdoor adventures around the UK, for people who want a break from the 9-5.

The first two thirds of the book are example adventures, and revolve around the main message of the book, which is finding arbitrary reasons for a trip. This section was very repetitive and felt padded out, the whole thing could have been cut by at least half. There are three main categories: Land (finding the source of a river, visit your parents' birthplace), water (swim in a river, kayak along the coastline) and a set challenge (catch a fish and eat it, enter a race, build a shelter).

The last third is useful notes, though there's not much here you can't find online or in a Scouting guide, it's strangely more inspirational than the adventure section. This covers things like kit, dealing with ticks and midges, campfires and cooking, cloud spotting and star gazing.

If you're interested, more of a book to borrow than buy.