This reality novella is not based on a true story - it is a true story! (Written as literary non-fiction, employing the character 'Adam', the 'A' of pseudonym 'A. Greenman')

Adam is a master gapster, heading off on extreme and perpetual gaps years for a decade, guided by a strong sense of intuition. But what leads a man to try and walk off the grid in the first place? In the prequel to:

'I Travel Light, The Man Who Walked Out of the World',

'Beaten, Broken and Blessed: Before I Travel Light' looks at the extraordinary years which lead up to the nomad's mysterious and epic journey around the world. As a young boy, Adam has an out of body experience, it is disorientating, a feeling which is exacerbated when he is repeatedly bullied and beaten senseless. He often feels ‘punch drunk,’ and as he grows up, he struggles to manage with everyday life. More so when he touches upon seemingly innate and extraordinary spiritual gifts.

Under overwhelming stress, the young man tries to find ways to cope with his new esoteric awareness’s, and the retail bicycle business he owns. As a result, he turns to recreational drugs, goes out one day to buy a pint of milk and never returns to his shop. It is the beginning of a long and arduous journey, in which the wanderer tries to walk out of the rat-race and into the wild.

A provocative and true account. Greenman is a dyslexic author of numerous works of both fiction and non-fiction and in 2012, the growing interest in his work attracted the attention of the BBC several times. Though his work is edited, his unique style of expressing words is not cut in order to be polished to an un-natural finish.