The Sword of Heaven: A Five Continent Odyssey to Save the World

Writer and photographer Mikkel Aaland grew up with a bomb shelter for a bedroom, in terror of nuclear war. At the height of the Cold War, Aaland finds himself drawn into a mysterious Shinto priest’s plan to save the world. Traveling from Norway to the Philippines, Iceland to South Africa, he places pieces of a sacred Shinto sword in key power spots around the world. The second title in the Travelers’ Tales Footsteps series.