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It\u2019s been a year or so since I first chanced upon Eva zu Beck\u2018s YouTube channel, where she regularly posts videos ranging from ten minutes long to an hour plus, documenting excursions taken around the world by boat, on foot, or in her 2006 Land Rover Defender 110 named Odyssey, with only her dog Vilk as her companion.<\/p>\n

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Tagging along on her adventures from the comfort of my fully on-grid and air-conditioned home, much like the rest of her 1.92M+ subscribers, I\u2019ve been inspired by the \u201cyou can do this too\u201d open-door nature of her content, which she\u2019s stayed true to even after landing a deal with National Geographic for her own travel show, \u201cSuperskilled,\u201d and announcing that her first memoir, \u201cThe Wilder Way\u201d was to be released by the Simon & Schuster imprint Gallery Books in June.<\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Wilder Way,\u201d zu Beck writes candidly of the fast marriage and even faster divorce that tipped the scales between the life she\u2019d been raised to believe she should have, and the life of wild, solo adventure she craved. Describing her transition from being a well-off corporate executive living in London to traveling the Mongolian wilderness, the Arctic Circle, and just about every other place under the sun, she effectively does so in such a way as to make the reader not only believe that such adventures are a possibility, but also a soul-enriching necessity \u2014 a call-to-action to not let one more day be wasted in the mindset of \u201cI could never,\u201d or \u201cmaybe one day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat I hope for when people see my content is not for people to overhaul their lives, but to make small shifts,\u201d zu Beck writes in a recent essay for The Skylark. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be radical, for many people it should not be. But to live a life that is slightly more authentic to their true selves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reading \u201cThe Wilder Way\u201d might not overhaul your life, but it will surely help you see how easily a fuller one can be had.<\/p>\n

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