Riding The Big One: In The Wake of My Ancestors

Two heroes—one ancient, one modern—cast off their mundane existences for respective adventures on the high seas and high ways. Whether by Viking longship or tandem bicycle, Riding the Big One is a humorous and poignant tale of discovery, ancestry and transformation.
Eyvind Haakonson is a twenty-year-old fisherman in ninth century Norway. On a bleak winter's day he decides that Valhalla is better than dying of boredom and goes Viking, boarding the next ship headed for Britain. He brings his s...