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Mission:Explore featured in The Guardian G2

Mission Explore was featured in The Guardian G2 kids section yesterday, 5 August under the headline How to be an Explorer. And they are asking any of you kids out there to send photos in from your adventures to g2kids@guardian.co.uk – so get out there and show them what guerilla geography is all about.

Mission:Explore officially launched

One reads a lot about book launches. At Can of Worms we are hoping that the official book launch of Mission:Explore will catapult it into best sellerdom. Following is a brief look at last weekend’s book launch: mebooklaunch

Exploration for the masses. Mission:Explore coming soon

IT’S TIME TO EXPLORE! 102 missions that challenge you to (re)discover our world. Become a guerilla explorer and extreme missioner with missions that defy gravity, see the invisible and test your mental agility. CLICK HERE to see a sample and order pre-publication copies at a special discount – JUST £6.00 including P&P (normal price £7.99 plus P&P). BUY TWO and a third copy will be donated to charities supporting underprivileged children. Each illustrated mission will challenge you in daring new ways. Draw, rub, smear, write, scrape and print your findings and achievements as you complete each mission. LOOK INSIDE…if you dare!

Get Mission:Explore for only £6 including UK P&P using the button below.

Check out Alastair Humphreys on Sport Relief

Serial adventurer and Eye Books author Alastair Humphreys embarked upon the Three Peak Challenge with Help for Heroes veteran Major Phil Packer and BBC Presenter, Kate Silverton. Keep an eye out for them on the Sport Relief coverage this weekend on the BBC.

And you can read the first 90 pages of Alastair’s Mood of Future Joys online with this Eye Books online eBook:

Myebook - Moods of Future Joys - click here to open my ebook

Alastair Humphreys to talk at Adventure Show

Serial adventurer, he’s currently walking around the M25 in the worst winter conditions in 50 years, and Eye Books’ author Alastair Humphreys will be talking at the Adventure Show at the end of this month, Sunday 31 January 2010.

Described as “The first great adventure of the 21st Century” by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Alastair will be talking about his epic circumnavigation of the world by bike recounted in his two books: Moods of Future Joys and Thunder & Sunshine. (Alastair will also be talking at the National Geographic this month, details to come). You can check out Al’s blog, read about his cycling adventures by reading Moods of Future Joys and Thunder & Sunshine, or read about the wisdom he gained on his journey by reading Ten Lessons From the Road. Buy by using the buttons below.

For details on the adventure show go here: http://www.adventureshow.co.uk/visitor_information_show_features_talks_best_adventure.php

Time : 14:00 till 14:45
Where : Theatre 2

Around the world by bike. By Alistair Humphreys, Adventurer

Aged 24 Alastair Humphreys left England to cycle round the world. His journey along the length of the Earth’s three great land masses [Africa, the Americas, and Eurasia] took more than 4 years to complete. He has written three books about his adventure.

Alastair’s talk at Chester Literature Festival

The Shell Chester Literature Festival is in its 21st year, and they have invited one of our authors, the fantastic Alastair Humphreys, to give a talk. As well as being the author of three books, Al is a talented speaker, with the President of the Royal Geographical Society saying, “with the possible exception of Sir David Attenborough, that was the best lecture, and the longest applause that I have heard in the past 15 years.”

You can check out Al’s blog, read about his cycling adventures by reading Moods of Future Joys and Thunder & Sunshine, or read about the wisdom he gained on his journey by reading Ten Lessons From the Road. Buy by using the buttons below.

ACE Africa and Can of Worms

Can of Worms and Eye Books are proud to support ACE Africa in their fight against HIV/AIDs in East Africa. Today ACE Africa are holding their Harambee to raise funds to support all their good works in Africa. The event is being hosted by Sir Trevor McDonald with entertainment from Lenny Henry.

We have donated hundreds of copies of Walking Away by Charlotte Metcalf for the event, (the foreword is coincidentally written by Lenny Henry and the book is a must read for anyone who cares about the human condition and in particular the plight of Africans). To further support the work of ACE Africa we are now donating £1 per book sold through this special link on our website.

Click here to find out more about ACE Africa, or browse our titles by category by clicking through. More details can be found about our range of titles on this website or on www.eye-books.co.uk.

There’s something in the fridge that wants to kill me!

Chips Hardy, author of Each Day a Small Victory, has a new play out. There’s Something in the Fridge that Wants to Kill Me is provocative, moving and hilarious. Isabelle Gregson shines in this one woman, multiple personality show. London previews at Theatre 503 on the 17th and 18th of July, then onwards to the Edinburgh Fringe between 31st July and 25th August.