“They say it takes a village. In this case, it took a world.” After 28 years and some 50,000 kilometres, British explorer and adventurer Karl Bushby has returned to his hometown of Hull, completing an extraordinary life journey across four continents that illustrates not only the limits of human endurance, but also the intricate relationship between individual determination, geopolitical constraints and a world of humanity. Speaking to France 24's François Picard shortly after his emotional homecoming, Bushby reflects on an undertaking that resembles a modern-day Odyssey, although the defining obstacles were often more geopolitical than mythological.