The Path of a Free Man: Rediscovering Purpose and Freedom in the Heart of Portugal
by Robert Monroe
 
This is not just a book.
It’s a man’s pulse, printed on the page.
It is exile and arrival, a wandering spirit finally walking itself home.
 
When the world told Robert Monroe to hustle harder, smile sharper, and stay grateful for a system designed to break him—he listened. For decades.
Corporate titles. Global travel. Providing for his family. Holding it down.
Until the noise outside grew louder than the voice inside.
 
So he left.
 
He bought a piece of forgotten land on a mountain in central Portugal, packed a bag, and flew into the unknown with nothing but eight days in a hotel and the quiet hope that peace could be planted like a seed.
 
What unfolds is a lyrical, soul-stirring journey through grief, grit, and grace.
 
Robert clears his own land. Sleeps in a used caravan beside a ruined white cottage. Builds fire from scratch and calls it home.
He befriends an 82-year-old farmer woman who teaches him more than any boardroom ever could.
He talks to his wife Venice every night, their love like jazz—stretching across time zones, wrapping around loneliness, improvising survival into song.
 
This isn’t a man escaping.
This is a man returning—to spirit, to truth, to something ancestral that can’t be named, only felt.
 
There are no gurus here. No neat lessons.
Just a man with chigger bites on his legs, dirt on his boots, and freedom in his chest.
 
If you’ve ever felt lost in your own life…
If you’ve ever wanted to drop everything and just go…
If you’ve ever wondered who you might become when the world stops telling you who you should be—
 
This book is for you.
 
It moves like Coltrane at dusk.
It speaks like Baldwin in Paris.
It prays like Maya on the porch.
It frames struggle and beauty like Gordon behind the lens—soft light on a strong face.
 
The Path of a Free Man is not an answer.
It’s an offering.
A mirror.
A map back to the part of you that still believes in healing, in love, and in land.