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It is positive and negative, up and down. It isn’t an outpouring of positivity and banal superlatives that ‘life changing journeys’ often become.

Often I dislike travel books that take the focus away from the people and the places and authors who wrap themselves up in internal inspection but Jed does it in such a way that it weaves seamlessly into the passage of time and movement and is so engaging that I was hooked. There is delightful description of places you might have visited, or if you haven’t, you will almost certainly have dreamed of visiting. Jedidiah’s honest and open style means you feel the same emotions he was, or maybe you don’t, maybe you feel your own emotions – or at least the ones you think you would. To Shake the Sleeping Self actually steals your mind and absorbs you into a diary, a personal insight. That is not to say however, that you don’t want to rush out and tackle something. This book is most certainly not the travel agent spiel, boasting and bragging, trying to make you feel jealous and willing you to rush out and do the same journey.