Description: Author John Hanson Mitchell recounts a marathon bicycle trek from Andalusia to the Outer Hebrides, tracing solar myths, sun cults, birds, and flowering plants all along the way.
Review Quotes: "It's his willingness to stop and smell the flowers that makes him such a companionable writer." --Kirkus Reviews
"If there is anything he enjoys more than the heathen moment, it is attending the song of a stonechat, the chance to take a snooze in a field of wildflowers, an idle glass of wine." --San Francisco Chronicle "Mitchell deftly proves that his is a universal topic, crossing borders and topics and time." --The Boston Globe