{"product_id":"gone-viking-a-travel-saga-9781771604475","title":"Gone Viking: A Travel Saga","description":"\u003cb\u003eBill Arnott guides readers on an epic literary odyssey following history's most feared and misunderstood voyageurs: the Vikings!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo \"go Viking\" is to embark on an epic journey. For more than eight years, Bill Arnott journeyed throughout the northern hemisphere, discovering sites Scandinavian explorers raided, traded, and settled - finding Viking history in a wider swath of the planet than most anthropologists and historians ever imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a small pack and weatherproof journal, Bill explores and writes with a journalist's eye, songwriter's prose, poet's perspective, and a comedian's take on everything else. Prepare yourself for an armchair adventure like no other!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Europe to Asia, the Mediterranean to the British Isles, through Scandinavia to Iceland, Greenland, and the New World, with further excursions around Thor Heyerdahl's Pacific, Roald Amundsen's Arctic, and Olaf Crowbone's stormy North Atlantic, Bill takes readers on a mythic personal adventure in real time - a present-day Viking quest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArnott, Bill:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill Arnott\u003c\/b\u003e is a songwriter, poet, and author of the bestselling travelogue \u003ci\u003eGone Viking: A Travel Saga\u003c\/i\u003e (Whistler Independent Book Awards Finalist and American Book Fest International Book Awards Finalist), \u003ci\u003eGone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWonderful Magical Words\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been published in literary journals in Canada, the US and UK, Europe, Asia, and Australia, and his column \"Bill Arnott's Beat\" is a feature in several magazines. Bill has received awards for prose, poetry, and songwriting and is the creator of \"Bill's Artist Showcase.\" For his eight-year Gone Viking expedition he was awarded a fellowship in London's Royal Geographical Society. When not trekking the globe with a small pack and his journal, or showing off cooking skills as a culinary-school dropout, Bill can be found on Canada's west coast, making friends and misbehaving. Visit billarnottaps.wordpress.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50371838673170,"sku":"9781771604475","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_858b9808-cf6b-4ad7-9108-1ce95faa897a.jpg?v=1728539536","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gone-viking-a-travel-saga-9781771604475","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}