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Nors, Dorthe, 1970- author.
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Nors, Dorthe, 1970- -- Travel.
Travelers' writings.
Voyages and travels.
Denmark -- Description and travel.
North Sea Coast (Denmark) -- Description and travel.
Denmark -- History.
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A line in the world ...
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A line in the world : a year on the North Sea coast / Dorthe Nors ; translated from the Danish by Caroline Waight ; illustrated by Signe Parkins ; [maps, Neil Gower].
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Nors, Dorthe, 1970- author.
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022]
Subjects
Nors, Dorthe, 1970- -- Travel.
Travelers' writings.
Voyages and travels.
Denmark -- Description and travel.
North Sea Coast (Denmark) -- Description and travel.
Denmark -- History.
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164445209X (paperback)
9781644452097 (paperback) :
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238 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Contents:
The line -- The shortest night -- Wandering houses -- The secret place -- West by water -- The tracks around Bulbjerg -- The timeless -- Amsterdam, Hvide Sande -- Wadden Sea Suite -- "In my distress' -- Winter solstice -- Magnets -- Borderland -- Quiet rain in Skagen.
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"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."--Provided by publisher.
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