In the summer of 2008, Billy Connolly set sail on a 10-week journey from ocean to ocean: from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by way of the Northwest Passage—a fabled route deep within the Arctic Circle that has thwarted explorers and fortune-hunters for centuries. By plane, rail, road, and boat, along coastlines—and across sweeping landscapes that represent the final Northern frontier of the inhabited world for both man and beast—Connolly's adventure mixes bizarre encounters with characters straight out of Hemingway novels, incredible wildlife, forgotten languages, big game hunting, and all night carousing under the midnight sun.