Huw Kingston On Circumnavigating The Mediterranean

Insight into circumnavigating the Mediterranean by sea kayak, foot, ocean rowboat and bike.

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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