About

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Hello there! I’m British adventurer, director, writer and activist Graham Hughes.

I’m the first person to visit every country in the world without flying.

Less than a year after finishing The Odyssey Expedition, I won Jinja Island on an American survival show.

Yes, really!

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SOS Island | The Wrap Party

Behind-The-Scenes Diary Saturday 19th October 2013 For our last evening in Puerto Rico, I fancied heading out to see Fajardo’s famous Bioluminescence Bay, so I

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The Sea Plus Plus

February 2015 Every Thursday morning I get on the VHF radio (located in my pantry) and broadcast the weather as part of a neighbourly service

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New York, New York

Arriving at JFK around 8pm local time, I was greeted at the airport, for the first time in my life, by a guy holding a sign with my name on it. Well, almost – he’d missed the second ‘h’ in Hughes. But it’s the thought that counts. Yes indeedy, your humble narrator here got Lincoln’d all the way to Manhattan, courtesy of CBS.

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A Break In The Clouds

November 2015 While I was working on making the island just that little bit more comfortable so I could justify charging people to stay, I

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