https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/22/top-10-books-about-adventures-philip-marsden-the-summer-isles

From mapping the Siberian wilderness to walking penniless across Europe, the best adventures are unsought, but lived intensely

Adventure is not something you seek – you can trek out into open country and wait for it to happen but you can’t plan it. That’s the point. Its original meaning, from Middle English, was “that which happens without design; chance, hap, luck”. It is the very randomness of it, the pervasive tickle of fear that something is about to go wrong, that is the greatest discomfort of true adventure, and its greatest reward. There is a part of us that is hard-wired for such uncertainty, and the alertness it brings elevates us, makes us alive.

Related: The Summer Isles by Philip Marsden review – a voyage of the imagination