He has represented New Zealand in wheelchair basketball and became the first person in a chair to complete an apprenticeship in engineering, but that wasn’t enough. He also decided to travel the world at age 28 with nothing more than a backpack and a guitar.
EAMON WOOD His adventures make up his first book
A Backpack, a Chair and a Beard.
First of all, congratulations on the book, what was the motivation behind writing it? I don t remember having a eureka moment, but I have always kept some sort of journal, and at some point, someone would have made a suggestion in my mid-20s . which I responded by then setting myself the goal to have written a book by the time I was 30.