About Us

Adventurous Ink uses culture - books by leading thinkers, adventurers and nature writers - to craft connections with ourselves, each other and the rest of the natural world.

Because this connection, this understanding, is missing from our busy modern lives.

We are trapped in the moment and in our bubbles by technologies and ways of being that, for one reason or another, cut us off from the things that truly matter. The things that can give us hope, meaning and resilience.

That's why we curate seasonal selections of books that meet the moment.

Rooted in the natural world, our founder Tim Frenneaux - now a recognised thought leader on sustainable living and regenerative futures - started out in 2015 selling the most sustainable outdoor clothing and equipment he could find or make.

Eventually he realised that what people really needed to make the most of their time out there was inspiration and insight from books, not more gear.

So, Adventurous Ink was born in 2017 to make it easy for folk to discover new travel nature and adventure writers.

A new realisation dawned in 2024 that the people we met in our books tended to be exotic 'others', not the everyday people we could and should be connecting with, so in our most recent evolutionary kink we rebooted our offering to include leading thinkers about the human condition.

So here we are now, tiny band of rebellious outsiders finding hope, meaning and connection in the printed word.

Do join us.