Step By Step: The perfect gift for the adventurer in your life

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This vivid account of his fascinating, often hair-raising crusades feels more like an enthralling exchange over coffee with a friend than a formal autobiography. * Compass Magazine * Fortunately it came up to expectations! So if you want to know how much someone might get for their kidney in Moldova or the price of a (fake) diplomatic passport in Somalia this may interest you. It goes far beyond that taking in arms dumps in what was part of the Soviet Union which was scary and fascinating. However interesting - to me - was the parts about him personally and his thoughts on modern travel and tourism. He left school with virtually no qualifications and almost committed suicide. Large parts of the book explain how he and his tiny team put these travel adventures together - far from the notion of a big-budget crew that I envisioned and it also explains that the authenticity of his series is genuine and not an accident. Everything is very personal and Simon himself. See on võrratult hea raamat. Kuna mulle Simon Reeve'i saated meeldivad, siis ootasin pikisilmi selle raamatu eesti keelset versiooni. Pean ütlema, et sama muhe nagu ta on kaamera eest, on ta ka kirjutades. Temas lihtsalt on tohutult südamilikkust ning oskust näidata nii head, kui halba, ilma seda otseselt kellelelegi ette hõõrumata. Kõik otsused ja järeldused saad sa teha ise. In the last decade, he's made a name for himself as British TV's most adventurous presenter. He's hunted with the Bushmen of Kalahari, hung out with biker outlaws in Australia and been taught to fish by the president of Moldova. * Radio Times *

I’ve always enjoyed Simon Reeve’s BBC documentaries, so as soon as I knew that this book was being published, I had to get copy, especially on audio as he reads it himself. You can be sure to trust Simon to find a fun story. Simon might just be the best tour guide in the world. * Sun *

Summary

Then two things happened that had a massive effect on his life - to the extent his life was completely turned around. He was so open about these issues that I wanted to give him a big hug and tell him everything would be okay. He talks about how desperately depressed he was, how disinterested he was with school and his future.

Mu esimene emotsioon (kestis peaaegu pool raamatut) oli tohutu pettumus. Ma olin asunud enda arvates lugema reisiraamatut, aga sattunud hoopis elulooraamatu otsa. Võin selles hooletuses võtta osa süüd küll endale, aga olgem ausad, tutvustus tagakaanel on ikka ka sutike eksitav.

s druge strane, knjigu nisam mogla ispustiti iz ruku. iako počinje s oboljenjem od malarije u gabonu, brzo se prebacuje na same svoje početke te priča o vjetrovima koji su ga kroz život bacali, počevši od odrastanja u siromašnoj i djelomično disfunkcionalnoj obitelji, preko kriminala u ranim tinejdžerskim godinama i, slijedom, depresije i suicidalnosti, do pronalaženja smisla svog postojanja u putovanjima i otkrivanja kutnih dijelova svijeta - bilo perom, bilo okom kamere. After this the book takes a turn. He spends a lot of time going over a couple of his first TV documentaries, ‘Meet the Stans’ and ‘Places that Don’t Exist’. All very interesting indeed. He goes over his ‘Equator’ journey. That is where it ends even though he has done a lot more travel docs. I encountered Simon Reeve via his programmes on the BBC. In them he introduced me to some places I was aware of and a number that I was not. In both cases he always opened my eyes to aspects I was unaware of and often things that were unsettling. He did this openly and with good humour. He always seemed to respect and be concerned about the people who featured in the programmes. The idea of reading his biography was enormously appealing. spoj autobiografije i putopisa. nisam prije gledala reeveove dokumentarce za bbc, ali s obzirom da je drugi dio knjige posvećen upravo njima ("meet the stans" (kazahstan, kirgistan, uzbekistan i tadžikistan) i "places that don`t exist" (nagorno karabakh, somaliland, tajvan, transdnjestria)), bacila sam oko i na njih. niti jedan nisam uspjela odgledati do kraja - što zbog stravično loše kvalitete videa, a što jer me nije uspio uvući u priču. I have always been taken by a line used by Archbishop Desmond Tutu about the arrival of Christianity on the continent: ‘When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.’ (Simon Reeve).