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A walk and talk with … Paul Harris – The Warrior Walker
June 16 @ 3:00 PM - 9:00 PM
£10.00 – £28.00
‘An epic and inspirational journey that everyone should read’ JASON FOX, SAS: WHO DARES WINS
About Paul Harris and The Warrior Walker
In 2020, Paul Harris aka ‘The Warrior Walker’ set off on a walking pilgrimage around the UK that would change his life and the way he saw the world forever.
Weighed down by a traumatic military past in the marines, a brief but surreal moment as a reality TV contestant (on Channel 4’s Shipwrecked) and a temporary teaching career in Thailand, Paul was forced home when a visa mix-up tipped his life over. With no real family to speak of, very few friends, and a collapsing, long distance relationship to grieve, he seriously contemplated taking his own life at the age of 36. Then a random text from a friend delivered a route map to emotional safety during what were possibly his final few hours. Paul, why don’t you walk the British coast path?
With only £300 in his pocket and a 30-kilo rucksack on his back, Paul decided to leave his life as he knew it and took up wild camping, slept rough, struggled along the coast paths of Devon, Cornwall and Wales in the sideways rain, and wading through knee-high snowdrifts around the Scottish islands and the burning summer sun on England’s east coast.
Walking was therapy. Nature was restorative. The path was his friend. The Warrior Walker is more than just one man’s journey of self-discovery. Paul’s story shines a light on the kindness of strangers, of the coast path gave him purpose, about discovering family and true love, giving back to the communities who supported him and of finding light even in his darkest of moments. In a world where so much human interaction is cruel, divisive and distant, this is a reminder that there is magic out there, if we are willing to open ourselves to it.
On his second lap, wanting to give back to the communities that had so helped him on the walk, he raised over £10,000 for MIND, Great North Air Ambulance, Samaritans and Doctors Without Borders. After completing his walk, Paul told the BBC: ‘I basically cried my way around the UK on the first lap because people were putting me up and it was just like therapy. The kindness of strangers has changed my life. I thought, I can’t really pay it forward because I haven’t got any money, so I thought I’d raise money for charity.’
He currently works in a pub in Plymouth. The path remains just outside his door. Find him on Instagram @thewarriorwalker
Event Format:
Author talk ‘in conversation’, followed by audience Q&A and book signing.
Tickets:
£10 talk only
£15 talk and book
£15 walk only
£20 walk and talk
£28 Walk, talk and book
Venue:
The Loft at Bookish is located in our flagship store in Crickhowell, accessed from Silver Lane.
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