An Excerpt from the Award-Winning “Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries” by Bill Arnott
An Excerpt from the Award-Winning "Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries" by Bill Arnott.
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Bill Arnott’s Beat: No Power? No Problem!
We were set up with Netflix, the evening shaping up fine, then the lights softly surged, and with an almost audible "pop" we were cast into dark. A power outage.
Bill Arnott’s Beat: NPM ’22 and the Haiku Hedge
It was the cusp of NPM. Spring was in full bloom, literally. National Poetry Month coincided with Vancouver’s Cherry Blossom Festival and the city’s trees were putting on a show.
Bill Arnott’s Travel Beat: Talking Writing and Viking with the UK’s Alex Pearl
Bill Arnott’s Travel Beat: Talking Writing and Viking with the UK’s Alex Pearl.
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin
Bill encounters the #1 international best-seller, Fresh Water for Flowers, an intimately told story about a woman who defiantly believes in happiness, despite it all.
The Ekphrastic Equation: A Viking Visit with The Ekphrastic Review’s Lorette C. Luzajic
An interview conducted by the Ekphrastic Review's Lorette C, Luzajic with Bill Arnott, author of the award-winning Gone Viking series.
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
Just days after Raynor Winn learned that Moth, her husband of thirty-two years, was terminally ill, they lost their home and livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they impulsively decided to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset, via Devon and Cornwall. Living wild and free, at the mercy of sea and sky; they discovered a new, liberating existence – but what would they find at the journey’s end?
The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson
Blending memoir and nature writing at its best, Svensson’s journey to understand the eel becomes an exploration of the human condition that delves into overarching issues about our roots and destiny, both as humans and as animals, and, ultimately, how to handle the biggest question of all: death. The result is a gripping and slippery narrative that will surprise and enchant.
The Power of Travel Lit – Chatting with Travel Writing World
A Q&A visit Bill Arnott was privileged to have with Jeremy Bassetti of Travel Writing World, a touchstone for every reader, writer, and wanderer.
Introducing Bill Arnott’s Travel Beat
Welcome to Bill Arnott’s Travel Beat, a new feature at The Miramichi Reader. This series includes stories from the road and book reviews – new titles in addition to select publications from the past – books I feel warrant a closer look.
The Bill Arnott Interview
An interview with Bill Arnott, award-winning author of Gone Viking: A Travel Saga and Gone Viking: Beyond Boundaries.
Indie Bookstores: Connecting Communities
Independent bookstores are a story of perseverance and connection, Bill Arnott says.
Forever Cast in Endless Time by Bill Arnott
The poems in Forever Cast in Endless Time offer a delightful tour of lands and seas and birds and bees and a gentle walk thorough the creative mind of Bill Arnott.
Bill Arnott’s Beat: The Authors’ Lounge Interview
Let me start by thanking The Miramichi Reader and editor-in-chief James M. Fisher for being a great supporter and friend to Bill Arnott’s Beat. Much of the success of the column-series and subsequent book, Bill Arnott’s Beat: Road Stories … Continue reading
Gone Viking: a Travel Saga by Bill Arnott
To “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.