Book info

• Title Step by Step
• Author Simon Reeve
• Year 2018
• Genre Memoir

In TV adventurer Simon Reeve's bestselling memoir he describes how he has journeyed across epic landscapes, dodged bullets on frontlines, walked through minefields and been detained for spying by the KGB. His travels have taken him across jungles, deserts, mountains and oceans, and to some of the most beautiful, dangerous and remote regions of the world. In this revelatory account of his life Simon gives the full story behind some of his favourite expeditions, and traces his own inspiring personal journey back to leaving school without qualifications, teetering on a bridge, and then overcoming his challenges by climbing to a 'Lost Valley' and changing his life... step by step.

Thoughts

Weirdly, I’ve only watched one or two of Simon Reeve’s travel programmes, but I find him intriguing - the book only adds to that. Reading of how he started out with a difficult childhood and turned things around, was a terrorism expert before and after 9/11, and then started his travels around the world. It’s well written and engaging, and I know there’s a second book that I’m keen to get into now as well.

Rating: 5 / 5