Bill Arnott

Bill Arnott writes travel narratives, poetry, and nonfiction shaped by close observation of landscape, history, and cultural memory. Gone Viking follows his journeys through northern Europe and across routes connected with Norse exploration, ranging from Scandinavia and Iceland to Greenland and Atlantic Canada. Rocky Mountain Books published the trade edition in 2020 under the full title Gone Viking: A Travel Saga. Arnott approaches the subject as a contemporary traveler rather than as a conventional chronological historian, placing encounters with people, museums, ruins, food, and regional traditions alongside reflections on how Viking history is remembered. His travelogue sequence includes Gone Viking, and his fellowship in the Royal Geographical Society reflects a sustained interest in geography, movement, and place. An earlier independently published edition became a 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards finalist. These contexts place the book within his broader practice of turning extended journeys into researched, personal accounts of place and the stories attached to it. He has published poetry and fiction, extending his attention to movement, place, memory, and storytelling.