Insight into circumnavigating the Mediterranean by sea kayak, foot, ocean rowboat and bike.
Adventurer and environmentalist Huw Kingston spent 363 days circumnavigating the Mediterranean by sea kayak, foot, ocean rowboat and bike from Turkey back to Turkey. The journey saw him travel 13,000km and encompassed 17 countries. In this candid video interview Huw discusses his incredible Mediterranean journey and wider career.
You can read an extract from Mediterranean: A Year Around A Charmed and Troubled Sea by Huw Kingston here on Books from Scotland. The book is out now published by Whittles priced £19.99.
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