Measured Recklessness

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. In his early twenties, Alan Fenwick left Sydney for what he intended to be a year on the road. He came home thirty-six years later, having lived a life on the margins of Asia that neither he nor anyone else had imagined. Measured Recklessness is the account of those decades. From a Dayak longhouse in Borneo to a royal funeral in Sumba, from the temples of Bagan to an imam's circumcision check in a Jakarta Mosque, from the streets of Calcutta to a Sumatran seismic camp of five hundred men, Fenwick was present for, complicit in, or fleeing from an extraordinary sequence of situations. He collected ikat textiles across the Indonesian archipelago, mapped jungles for oil companies, attended ceremonies foreigners were not meant to attend, and learned the precise art of being a foreigner who is not quite a tourist. Told in a dry, self-deprecating voice, Measured Recklessness is the memoir of an accidental traveller who became an accidental settler — and a portrait of an Asia that has largely vanished. A book for anyone who has ever lingered somewhere longer than they meant to told by a narrator who is honest about everything except his own better instincts. Duration - 11h 16m. Author - Alan Fenwick. Narrator - Digital Voice Tom - Conversations & Books E. Published Date - Sunday, 11 January 2026. Copyright - © 2026 Alan Fenwick ©.