The Girl Outdoors: The Wild Girl’s Guide to Adventure, Travel and Wellbeing

by Sian Anna Lewis

An adventure guide in book form, The Girl Outdoors offers support and knowledge, empowering the reader, whether she's thinking about cycling the length of Vietnam or just needs help fixing her bike. Packed with stunning photography, the book is organized into four main

- Active Outdoors shares the wildest activities on land and water and how to get started on everything from mountain biking to kayaking and night hiking to paddleboard yoga.
- Wild Adventures takes you farther with your outdoor skills, from canoe camping to cycle touring, building your own wild house, and holding mini festivals.
- Wild Cooking, Crafts, and Wellbeing looks at the everyday wild lifestyle, including how to build a fire, forage, grow your own fruits and veggies, become a pro at outdoor photography, and keep up energy levels with delicious recipes.
- Wanderlust takes it farther, providing advice on planning weekend and longer trips, essential equipment lists, and tips on long-term backpacking and traveling, as well as working and volunteering abroad.

Scattered throughout are enticing ideas for fabulous adventures all over the world, from canoe camping in Canada to hiking in the Arctic Circle. Whether it's going on a physically demanding adventure or making cordial from homegrown flowers, this beautiful book is packed with inspiring and attainable ideas for the wild life.

Genres: Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

Published June 5, 2018

Reviews

[Karen]

I am impressed with how this book manages to cover a wide range of outdoors activities, while exploring them in just enough depth to be interesting regardless of whether the particular topic is already your 'thing'. If you already do pretty much all typical outdoors activities, maybe this book isn't for you, but if you do one or two things and want to do more - then this is exactly the book for you. Now, the only problem I have, is that I want to do pretty much everything mentioned in the book! This is only a very small problem though - because one of the book's strengths is how it presents how easy it is to get started in the activities covered.

One topic I wasn't expecting to be covered was festivals. I live in Leeds, so I associate the word festival with loud, massive music festivals and not really an 'outdoorsy' activity. However, it is the sections such as these that you are least familiar with that give the freshest inspiration. Looks like there are many other type of festivals, and I am interested to explore that route. Also, turns out I didn't really know what smore was, but now I do, and now I must try one. Also, kayaking, and paddle boarding, and more wild swimming.

Enjoyable book, fun and inspirational, and now I think I really need to buy a drying robe.

[Grace]

A really great read for any woman (or anyone else that wants to read it) that wishes to be more adventurous and go outdoors more. From water sports to crafts, this book has plenty of suggestions to make you fitter, happier and at one with nature.

It’s a wonderful beginner’s guide with lots of different sections and things to try out. My favourite section was the first section which was about outdoor sports such as climbing, swimming, surfing, paddle boarding, mountain biking, kayaking etc. The best kind of sports if you ask me. The author also gives you many tips and tricks on things like changing a inner tube on a bike and the best advice to a woman going travelling by herself.

Overall a quick and interesting read for anyone wanting to get out there.

[Jen_reads]

The photography in this book is just stunning. The layout is gorgeous and easy to read. Lots of broad information but will require more in depth reading if any activities pique your interests. Wish I had read this in my twenties.

[Samfriday]

Loved this book :)

Inspirational and informative too!

[Megan Hancox]

I found this book really easy to ready and described a variety of different outdoor activities and related hobbies for women to try.