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Free on Kindle from January 9th-13th 2015

This reality novella is not based on a true story – it is a true story!

Book Description

Adam is a master gapster, heading off on extreme and perpetual gaps years for a decade, guided by a strong sense of intuition. But what leads a man to try and walk off the grid in the first place?

In the prequel to:

‘I Travel Light, The Man Who Walked Out of the World’,

‘Beaten, Broken Blessed: Before I Travel Light’ looks at the extraordinary years which lead up to the nomad’s mysterious and epic journey around the world. As a young boy, Adam has an out of body experience, it is disorientating, a feeling which is exacerbated when he is repeatedly bullied and beaten senseless. He often feels ‘punch drunk,’ and as he grows up, he struggles to manage with everyday life. More…

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I Travel Light – The Man Who Walked Out of the World

By A. Greenman

This book is not ‘based’ on a true story – it IS a true story’. The extraordinary decade of a young English carpenter, who asks himself:
“What is it that you really want in your life?”The answer is ‘less stress and more time’.

To have this he must do without many of the things that cost him so much money in life, work less and learn how to provide for his own basic human needs, self-sufficiently.Seeing that his vision will be easier to realize in a warmer climate, he heads off on a ‘Gap Year’ to Brazil in 2000, volunteers at a community, wanders beaches naked and eventually builds a tree house to…

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I TRAVEL LIGHT.Adventure Travel Novel – FREE e-book on KINDLE

Free KINDLE e-book (January 1st-5th 2015)

(Download for Kindle/iBookstore and PC)

I Travel Light – The Man Who Walked Out of the World

By A. Greenman

This book is not ‘based’ on a true story – it IS a true story’. The extraordinary decade of a young English carpenter, who asks himself:
“What is it that you really want in your life?”The answer is ‘less stress and more time’.

To have this he must do without many of the things that cost him so much money in life, work less and learn how to provide for his own basic human needs, self-sufficiently.Seeing that his vision will be easier to realize in a warmer climate, he heads off on a ‘Gap Year’ to Brazil in 2000, volunteers at a community, wanders beaches naked and eventually builds a tree house to live in. He discovers that sometimes a gap year is just not enough, and that to complete his dream, he must take a ‘Gap Life’, 10 years or more! The nomad finds himself on many wonderful adventures, often guided by intuition and a growing interest in spirituality.

 Helping on a farm in France, baking bread and walking donkeys, volunteering with an organisation called ‘W.W.O.O.F’ – ‘Willing Workers or World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms’ . He lives in a ruin in the mountains of Spain and grows his own food and lives like a monk. He buys a boat in India and becomes a fisherman, before getting caught up in a Tsunami. Onto New Zealand, he travels through ancient forests, often for days on foot.

Eventually, in the UK, he renounces everything he owns, except for the clothes he stands in. He sets off on a journey without a bag or destination, wandering Eastern Europe, seemingly responding to an inner calling. Grounding himself in earthly pursuits, continuing to learn more practical skills, he volunteers at orphanages and also continues to develop his ‘Wwoofing’ experiences, volunteering in Hungary.

Returning to WWOOF in England, he writes a book about the subject and assumes the author identity:
‘A. Greenman’. His book is praised by the WWOOF founder.

After ten years of living simply and wandering, he walks back into the world, only to discover that he has gone so far, for so long, that he no longer knows how to live in it. With no bank account, phone or even an address. The now not so young adventurer sets about writing up thousands of pages of notes. Facing all he once left a decade before, and aspects of himself he has tried to leave behind. He learns that he is dyslexic and that he has trouble digesting information, not to mention the memories of being beaten to a pulp in his youth and results of head injuries he incurred. He presents his story, not as a travelogue, but as novel. First writing a pocket book for each country he went to, making up a series: ‘The Adventures of a Greenman’. Collectively they form his novel style book:
‘I Travel Light: The Man Who Walked Out of the World’

Quotes: “You are the person inside all of us that we wish we could let out from time to time, possibly the most spontaneous traveller I have ever met!” Sarah Walker of BBC Radio Berkshire, interviewing A. Greenman.”When I had something important to do, I found myself reading this book instead – it is brilliant!” Dr.Murray Longmore, author of bestselling: ‘Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine’.

A. Greenman is the author of 20 titles.

I Travel Light – The Man Who Walked Out of the World

By A. Greenman

‘Beaten, Broken, Blessed’. Violence, headaches and healers

Free on Kindle from January 9th-13th 2015

This reality novella is not based on a true story – it is a true story!

Book Description

Adam is a master gapster, heading off on extreme and perpetual gaps years for a decade, guided by a strong sense of intuition. But what leads a man to try and walk off the grid in the first place?

In the prequel to:

‘I Travel Light, The Man Who Walked Out of the World’,

‘Beaten, Broken Blessed: Before I Travel Light’ looks at the extraordinary years which lead up to the nomad’s mysterious and epic journey around the world. As a young boy, Adam has an out of body experience, it is disorientating, a feeling which is exacerbated when he is repeatedly bullied and beaten senseless. He often feels ‘punch drunk,’ and as he grows up, he struggles to manage with everyday life. More so when he touches upon seemingly innate and extraordinary spiritual gifts.

Under overwhelming stress, the young man tries to find ways to cope with his new esoteric awareness’s, and the retail bicycle business he owns. As a result, he turns to recreational drugs, goes out one day to buy a pint of milk and never returns to his shop. It is the beginning of a long and arduous journey, in which the wanderer tries to walk out of the rat-race and into the wild.
A provocative and true account. Greenman is a dyslexic author of numerous works of both fiction and non-fiction and in 2012, the growing interest in his work attracted the attention of the BBC several times. Though his work is edited, his unique style of expressing words is not cut in order to be polished to an un-natural finish. (Written as literary non-fiction, employing the character ‘Adam’, the ‘A’ of pseudonym ‘A. Greenman’)

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Free Kindle e-book by ‘A. Greenman’. A novelette about raw travel in Crete.

Sleeping on the Sand: Raw Travel Crete (Novelette)

(The Adventures of a Greenman Book 11) [Kindle Edition]

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‘Forrest Gump’ cum ‘Into the Wild’. ‘The Adventures of a Greenman’ is a series of novelettes, about the raw travel experiences of a wanderer called Adam, who roams his way around the earth for a decade, drawn entirely from actual events and written as literary non-fiction.

In this one: ‘Sleeping on the Sand – Raw Travel Crete’, Adam sets of on a wild walk around the West coast of the stunning island, sleeping on beaches and in his tent in olive groves. Luck leads him to a remote cottage in the mountains, which he house-sits for two months, before going even further a field, catching a fishing boat to the island of ‘Gavdos’, a barely inhabited spot in the winter, between Crete and Libya. There he roams, a midst Pine and Cedar forests, building shelter and searching for drinking water, with the stray puppy dog who has tagged along. It is the nearest he will ever come to a ‘desert island experience’ and it really isn’t far off! There is no mains electricity or drinking water on tap in the place, but somehow Adam manages to survive there for 6 weeks.

*This is not a guide, but a journey of self-discovery and often uninhibited creative expression. An extraordinary novelette, inspired by a true story.

Greenman is a dyslexic author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. Though his work is edited, his unique style of expressing words is not cut in order to be polished to an un-natural finish. In this series, there are reality novelettes on his adventures in: Brazil, France, Spain, India, New Zealand, England, Wales, Eastern Europe, Crete and Italy. Collectively they form the epic:

‘I Travel Light: The Man Who Walked Out of the World’.

 A ‘BBC’ presenter recently said of him:

“You are the person inside all of us that we wish we could let out from time to time, possibly the most spontaneous traveller I have ever met!”

(BBC Radio Berkshire. Sarah Walker, talking to A. Greenman during a live broadcast).

SLEEPING ON THE SAND, free between Sat 13th Dec – Weds 17th Dec. 2014

How to Take a Gap Life (Sometimes a Gap Year is Just Not Enough!)

Here’s one for the record –

A novelette inspired by nomad Greenman’s travel C.V.

Based on a true story, in this delightful and unique novelette, Joseph decides to take some time out, but soon finds that ‘sometimes a gap year is just not enough!’

After a decade of roaming the world he realises that he has actually taken a ‘Gap Life’.

Trying to reintegrate back onto the grid, he finds that he is ideally qualified to apply for a job he has seen advertised as a ‘Newspaper Columnist’ on the subject of ‘Gap Years’.

This extraordinary and often humorous short book (with colour images), was inspired by the real life extreme travel experiences of the author. Beginning his journey in 2000, he built a treehouse to live in whilst travelling Brazil. Years later he became so adept at roaming, he eventually renounced every single item he owned and wandered Europe without even a bag, with only the clothes he stood in, guided by an immense sense of intuition.

Essentially, this quirky novelette is a nomad’s C.V, sprinkled with insights from the road and swiftly summarising an epic journey in Brazil, France, Spain, India, England, Scotland, Wales, New Zealand, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Greece and Italy:…amongst other places. This is not a guide, but a journey of self-discovery and often uninhibited creative expression.

When interviewed by the BBC in 2012, Greenman was said to be:

“The person inside all of us that we wish we could let out from time to time. Possibly the most spontaneous traveller I have ever met!”                                                

 

***(Sarah Walker, BBC Radio Berkshire, during a live interview)*** 
More BBC Radio interviews available below

‘How to Take a Gap Life’ is the forerunner to the author’s epic full account of his mysterious ten years of roaming, his reality novel:

‘I Travel Light: The Man Who Walked Out of the World’

(Also written as literary non-fiction)

Greenman is a dyslexic author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. Though his work is edited, his unique style of expressing words is not cut in order to be polished to an un-natural finish.

More BBC Radio interviews available to hear on: 

TRAVEL TIP 3 – CHRISTMAS ON A GREEK ISLAND. (Getting the best rate accommodation for a warmer winter. ITALY, SPAIN, GREECE…

Winter Lets in the warm. Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece…

Houses which were rented out for between 100 euros to 200 euros per day during peak season can often be rented out by the month during the winter. For example, in Crete, Greece, where my family are staying at the moment, the house above cost us 400 euros a month. With no deposit required. (£310 at the time of publishing this post) This offer will probably be available to us until the season warms up again, round about April. (Its hardly cold now, with daily temperatures averaging 20 deg C).

I have previously paid half that in southern Crete, for a nice studio apartment, but the house we are in now may fairly be considered to be 4 or 5 star.

After about a month of travelling Crete in October and November, (when we were still swimming in the sea) , we found this spectacular house, with orange and pomegranate trees and an open fire place to sit by during wet days and Christmas.

Balos, West Crete

In order to get this kind of deal in Spain, Italy, Greece or other warmer parts of Europe, one must be prepared to:

1st – Find an area which you like, where you would be happy to spend a few months (Place which may have winter warmth may also be, as a town, shut down for the winter. Find one which still operates for the locals.

2nd – Have time to spend asking around and not be desperate for housing!

3rd – Only go into letting agents if you have to. Do your work on the ground, ask around in bars, shops or even directly to hotels, bed and breakfasts which you find open. Don’t be afraid to ask for an ‘out of season month rate’

4th – Accept that this kind of maverick travelling may not be for you! I had travelled 9 years of the last twelve, working my way around the world. I was a single man then, but even now I have a family of my own, I still felt confident in booking budget accommodation online for all of us, (only at places with decent reviews). Getting the cheapest car hire and hitting the road!

Our current winter let

But what do you do for a winter? You may ask!

Personally, I am writing new books, drinking Greek coffee and playing with my 6 month old baby daughter.

Good luck

Thanks for reading

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Travel Tip 2 – TRAVEL THE WORLD WITH ‘HELPX’. Volunteer with Hosts in nearly every country.

TRAVEL TIP 2

If you would like to travel and volunteer, but not necessarily with organic organisations, but for example help fix up someone’s boat in Greece or walk someone’s dog in England, HelpX is a brilliant organisation with which I have had good experiences with. Its very cheap to join, and as with Wwoof, you receive your food and accommodation in exchange for helping out for a number of hours a day (usually between 4-7).

Greenman with Helpx in the South of France

Travel Tip 1 – LEARN ABOUT ORGANIC FARMING WITH W.W.O.OF. Volunteer in exchange for bed and food…’GO WWOOFING!’

TRAVEL TIP 1                                             

If you would like to learn about self-sufficiency, the land, help out on organic farms, shops, communities, in up to 100 countries world wide, you may like to volunteer with ‘W.W.O.O.F’.

You receive your food and accommodation in exchange for helping out for a number of hours a day (usually between 4-7). Find lots of free information online or read the whole lot together in one simple guide written by A. Greenman, who has volunteered in many countries with WWOOF.