The plan is simple: Run from coast to coast. From Helsinki on the Baltic Sea in southern Finland to the North Cape on the Barents Sea in northern Norway. It's not about taking the shortest route, nor about running the fastest time. I just want to go for a long run. But will I be able to physically sustain running north of a marathon a day for at least a month? Will I be able to hold my mind together?

Eleven Degrees is a book about my 28-day, 1,700-kilometer run that looks substantial even on a map of Europe. While running is the unifying thread, it's the journey, the adventure, the struggles, the highs, the lows, and the encounters along the way, that will make you keep turning the pages. Explore the route.

In the book, you won't find a recipe for how to do something similar, nor is it a guidebook on how to run. Eleven Degrees is about the reasons for doing something unconventional and seemingly out of reach, and why we should all be embarking on adventures, venturing into the unknown, with the sole purpose of making our lives fuller and richer.

Hardcover book with flat spine in elegant Italian-style binding and soft-touch matte laminated cover. The book has 264 pages, 29 full-page black-and-white photographs, and route map. The book is beautifully designed and printed on high-quality paper. Buy the book.

Mladen Zagorac is an adventure runner. He's most often running solo and self-supported, and has a soft spot for the Arctic region. He ran diagonally across Iceland, on the old trails across the Faroe Islands, on and off trails in mainland Scotland and the Isle of Skye, in West Greenland, Kungsleden trail in northern Sweden, and, of course, throughout Finland.