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Toby hoped to gain the strength and balance he knew nature could provide and to discover the things that anchor us to each other. His last trip out on the water was a week before he died. He was planning a book about the meaning of his adventures when he passed away aged 40. One of the things I learned is that it’s really therapeutic to be able to turn something which is ugly and difficult into something which is a work of art or which is beautiful,” she said. Written by Toby's sister Katie from his extensive notes and recordings after his untimely death, Moderate Becoming Good Later is both an epic adventure - sometimes choppy, constantly moving - and a personal voyage of discovery that includes old friends and new, plenty of wildlife, and the ever-present sea.

Katie Carr is a British author, artist, educator and coach who never imagined her first book having anything to do with sea kayaking. But when her adventurer brother Toby died in 2022 having sketched out a book, she decided to write it for him. On her year-long journey through loss, frustration, creation and storytelling, Katie was able to put into practice her training in expressive arts therapy and talked the talk on storytelling, as she had so often encouraged her graduate students to do.

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History Makers: Female Writers Dominate the 2023 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award Shortlist The sister of an adventurer whose life was cut short last year is to complete the epic seafaring challenge he never got to finish. Toby moved to Cornwall on his return to the UK and in the summer of 2020 completed the Cornish legs before intending to finish the job the following year. Toby's book also centres on the people he met, like these fellow kayakers on the Isle of WightAfter many years travelling the world in business storytelling roles, Katie had always expected to write a book, just not this one. She can currently be found at home in Barcelona, wrangling two young boys or learning to kayak to finish Toby's adventure. But it’s also a very healthy thing to do in a way. He died of cancer which can be a horrible, long, drawn-out end.

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An incredible read of adventure and life that will draw you in and inspire you to pursue your own journeys. Katie has truly honoured her brother with this gripping recount. - Jenny Tough, adventurer and author of Tough Women Adventure Stories and Solo Recommended Reads about Race, Racism, and Demarginalizing History - Necessary Non-fiction You Should Read for Life-changing Insights and Impact

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What a special book. A manifesto for living, loving and laughing full-heartedly, whatever life's storms and forecasts bring. A guide and companion for us all, whether we are embarking on voyages of our choosing or dealing with waves and storms dealt to us. - Sarah Outen, adventurer and author With the help of a Churchill Fellowship Grant, he kayaked around South East Iceland, the Faeroe Islands, Norway, Denmark, and all the way round the coast of Germany and into the Netherlands in the summer of 2018. I wish I had told him. He never knew I’d taken on the book either and so he died with the book contract knowing he would never write it. Although most know Toby as a sea kayaker, he was a highly respected architect. Those of us who were aware of his health issues as a young person were in awe of his academic achievements. I remember fondly his paddling tour of the architecture of the Thames downstream of Tower Bridge. He was leaping in and out of his kayak, standing in River Thames mud with his visual aids in his hand. Toby brought architecture alive to a group of amazed paddlers.

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Moderate Becoming Good Later is a wonderfully salty adventure, a quixotic odyssey driven by equal parts grit and good humour around the stormy shores of western Europe. But what really elevates this above other travellers' tales is the astonishing and moving story of the book's completion - a remarkable collaboration across the ultimate gulf. * Tim Hannigan, travel, nature and history writer * Pembrokeshire and Anglesey were completed in May, while the areas around the coast of Ireland will follow in July, and the west of Scotland up to the Hebrides in August. A mesmerising and poignant story that shares how the sea can bring together people, places and purpose. This is a must-read book not just for sea kayakers, but for anyone looking for inspiration to make the most out of life. * Doug Cooper, author of Scottish Sea Kayaking and coach * Variable, becoming northerly, 2 to 4 in north, otherwise easterly or northeasterly 4 to 6, increasing 7 or gale 8 in southeast. It also followed the loss of his brother Marcus to cancer in 2017, aged 38, which acted as an alarm call for his own life.

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It was quite hard listening to his voice, and also the notebooks smelt of his house and stuff, so some of it, emotionally, was really hard, especially in the beginning. “Tobywas a fun-lovingadventurer really, but also a very normal bloke”. Photo: Michal Madera We just grew up running around the village and having a wonderful time.” Toby pictured with a geyser amid the natural beauty of South East Iceland Armchair travel at its best. And I say "armchair" because I was very happy to just read this one, with all its thrills and spills, without feeling the need to go and do it myself. At times, I could practically feel the ocean churning beneath me, and my queasy stomach doing somersaults. A unique and heart-warming adventure, and beautifully written too. Bravo. - Simon Parker, journalist and author of Riding Out