Publication date UK format 6/10/22 book 175 pages
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Synopsis
A celebrated Danish writer explores the unsung histories and geographies of her beloved slice of the world. Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It’s a recurring pattern in my life. An instinct. Dorthe Nors’s first nonfiction book chronicles a year she spent traveling along the North Sea coast—from Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark to the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. In fourteen expansive essays, Nors traces the history, geography, and culture of the places she visits while reflecting on her childhood and her family and ancestors’ ties to the region as well as her decision to move there from Copenhagen. She writes about the ritual burning of witch effigies on Midsummer’s Eve; the environmental activist who opposed a chemical factory in the 1950s; the quiet fishing villages that surfers transformed into an area known as Cold Hawaii starting in the 1970s. She connects wind turbines to Viking ships, thirteenth-century church frescoes to her mother’s unrealized dreams. She describes strong waves, sand drifts, storm surges, shipwrecks, and other instances of nature asserting its power over human attempts to ignore or control it. Through a deep, personal engagement with this singular landscape, A Line in the World accesses the universal. Its ultimate subjects are civilization, belonging, and change: changes within one person’s life, changes occurring in various communities today, and change as the only constant of life on Earth.
My Review
This was an interesting read. I enjoyed reading it. I finished this short story in one sitting. This book was full of culture and it was fun travelling with the author down from the tip of Denmark. I loved how each chapter started with a wonderful pen drawing or the place the author was to talk about. It was so beautifully wrote and so descriptive. It was almost poetic in places. It was definitely an interesting and enjoyable journey. I actually rated it 3.5 stars rounded up as it was better than a average 3 star rating but fell a little short of the 4th star. Its a brilliant book that you should read a sample of to see if it your cup of tea it could be your 5 star read. I recommend this book if you love travelling the world from the comfort of your own home.
So much praise goes out to the author and publishing team for bringing us this lovely travel story.
Where you can buy this book
Amazon US K $9.99, HC $18.31, PB $14.40
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Amazon UK K £8.62, HC £10.69
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