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.

“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