Oops! Looks like we're having trouble connecting to our server.
Refresh your browser window to try again.
About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherCounterpoint Press
ISBN-101582431361
ISBN-139781582431369
eBay Product ID (ePID)1983182
Product Key Features
Book TitleFollowing the Sun
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicSpecial Interest / Bicycling, Europe / France, Europe / Spain & Portugal, General, Europe / Great Britain
GenreNature, Travel
AuthorJohn Hanson Mitchell
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight20 oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-003632
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal914.04/559
SynopsisAn account of the New England Booksellers' Award-winning writer's 1,500-mile journey on bicycle from the port of Cadiz to the Arctic Circle documents his sun-drenched adventures through southern Spain, Bordeaux, Versailles, Wordsworth's Lake District, precipitous Scottish Highlands, and a Druid temple., John Hanson Mitchell tells of his 1500 mile ride on a trusty old Peugeot bicycle from the port of Cadiz to just below the Arctic Circle. He follows the European spring up through southern Spain, the wine and oyster country near Bordeaux, to Versailles (the palace of the Sun King), Wordsworth's Lake District, precipitous Scottish highlands and finally to a Druid temple on the island of Lewis in the Hebrides, a place where Midsummer is celebrated in pagan majesty as the near-midnight sun dips and then quickly rises over the horizon.