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Dorthe Nors A Line in the World (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Line in the World : a Year on the North Sea Coast
- Publication Name
- A Line in the World
- Title
- A Line in the World
- Subtitle
- A Year on the North Sea Coast
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 164445209X
- EAN
- 9781644452097
- ISBN
- 9781644452097
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Travel
- Topic
- Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines, Personal Memoirs, Essays & Travelogues, Europe / Denmark
- Release Date
- 01/11/2022
- Release Year
- 2022
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 10.3in
- Item Width
- 7.2in
- Item Weight
- 10.9 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Number of Pages
- 168 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
ISBN-10
164445209x
ISBN-13
9781644452097
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12057265489
Product Key Features
Book Title
Line in the World : a Year on the North Sea Coast
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines, Personal Memoirs, Essays & Travelogues, Europe / Denmark
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Travel
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10.3in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
7.2in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Dl120.N6713 2022
Reviews
"These masterful essays give a strong, personal, and moving portrait of a landscape and of a mind--about loneliness, memory and belonging, in wind and waves, time, place. The light flowing through Nors's writing is breathtaking; it is hypnotic, consoling." --Gunnhild Øyehaug, author of Present Tense Machine "Dorthe Nors's first nonfiction draws a beautiful, delicate line into which swims time, space, place, borders and what it means to belong. A deep dive into a coastal landscape, both breathtaking and hypnotic, it is a journey towards your own heart and what it means to truly belong." --Natasha Carthew, author of Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience, "These masterful essays give a strong, personal, and moving portrait of a landscape and of a mind--about loneliness, memory and belonging, in wind and waves, time, place. The light flowing through Nors's writing is breathtaking; it is hypnotic, consoling." --Gunnhild Øyehaug, author of Present Tense Machine " A Line in the World is less a collection of essays than a confluence of eons, of feeling, of inarticulable precision--and it pulled me under. Dorthe Nors writes with the cool might of the North Atlantic tide, coasting from naval hubris and a dwindling, seaside matriarchy to geological phenomena and modern displacement. Such scope and focus is a feat, an occurrence of those poignant, silty histories which only an artist of Nors's caliber can catch." --Jakob Guanzon, author of Abundance "Dorthe Nors's first nonfiction draws a beautiful, delicate line into which swims time, space, place, borders and what it means to belong. A deep dive into a coastal landscape, both breathtaking and hypnotic, it is a journey towards your own heart and what it means to truly belong." --Natasha Carthew, author of Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience, "These masterful essays give a strong, personal, and moving portrait of a landscape and of a mind--about loneliness, memory and belonging, in wind and waves, time, place. The light flowing through Nors's writing is breathtaking; it is hypnotic, consoling." --Gunnhild Øyehaug, author of Present Tense Machine, "These masterful essays give a strong, personal, and moving portrait of a landscape and of a mind--about loneliness, memory and belonging, in wind and waves, time, place. The light flowing through Nors's writing is breathtaking; it is hypnotic, consoling." --Gunnhild Øyehaug, author of Present Tense Machine " A Line in the World is less a collection of essays than a confluence of eons, of feeling, of inarticulable precision--and it pulled me under. Dorthe Nors writes with the cool might of the North Atlantic tide, coasting from naval hubris and a dwindling, seaside matriarchy to geological phenomena and modern displacement. Such scope and focus is a feat, an occurrence of those poignant, silty histories which only an artist of Nors's caliber can catch." --Jakob Guanzon, author of Abundance "Dorthe Nors's first nonfiction draws a beautiful, delicate line into which swims time, space, place, borders and what it means to belong. A deep dive into a coastal landscape, both breathtaking and hypnotic, it is a journey towards your own heart and what it means to truly belong." --Natasha Carthew, author of Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience "A beautiful, melancholy account of finding home on a restless coast. In Dorthe Nors's deft hands, the sea is no longer a negative space, but a character in its own right. I loved it." --Katherine May, author of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times "Lyrical, luminescent, and yet rigorously concrete, Dorthe Nors's keen understanding of the intricacies of place and the tensions inherent in attachment make the Danish coast come to life. I loved seeing this landscape through her eyes, but most of all I loved the inheritance of observation, experience, and beauty contained within this volume." --Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun "You need real nerve to gaze unfaltering at the sea, and to walk untremblingly along the high creaking edges of the land, and life, and ideas. Nors is one of the very rare writers with that nerve, and it is spectacularly displayed in this taut, uncompromising, glittering book. Most of us are dangerously content with the appearance of things. If that's you, don't read this book, which cuts straight to the heart." --Charles Foster, author of A Little Brown Sea and Being a Beast, "A stunning portrayal of the connection between landscape, human beings, and memory on the Danish west coast...[Nors''s] rhythm, her stillness, her humility...This is a master piece." -- DAGBLADET INFORMATION "Dorthe Nors''s writing is both poetic and harsh, laconic and ironic... Her prose makes its way into the landscape and the soul." -- KRISTELIGT DAGBLAD "[Nors''s] unreserved love for the coastal landscape is the engine that drives the text forward...There is a seductive intimacy at stake in these encounters with nature." --MORGENBLADET "Dorthe Nors''s first nonfiction draws a beautiful, delicate line into which swims time, space, place, borders and what it means to belong. A deep dive into a coastal landscape, both breathtaking and hypnotic, it is a journey towards your own heart and what it means to truly belong." --Natasha Carthew, author of Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience "These masterful essays give a strong, personal, and moving portrait of a landscape and of a mind--about loneliness, memory and belonging, in wind and waves, time, place. The light flowing through Nors''s writing is breathtaking; it is hypnotic, consoling." --Gunnhild Øyehaug, author of Present Tense Machine "A beautiful, melancholy account of finding home on a restless coast. In Dorthe Nors''s deft hands, the sea is no longer a negative space, but a character in its own right. I loved it." --Katherine May, author of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times " A Line in the World is starkly, achingly beautiful. With stunning intimacy and precision--as attentive to tiny details in nature as she is to vast cloudless skies--Dorthe Nors shows us how places and their histories shape who we are and how we find home." --Jessica J. Lee, author of Turning and Two Trees Make a Forest "Lyrical, luminescent, and yet rigorously concrete, Dorthe Nors''s keen understanding of the intricacies of place and the tensions inherent in attachment make the Danish coast come to life. I loved seeing this landscape through her eyes, but most of all I loved the inheritance of observation, experience, and beauty contained within this volume." --Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun "You need real nerve to gaze unfaltering at the sea, and to walk untremblingly along the high creaking edges of the land, and life, and ideas. Nors is one of the very rare writers with that nerve, and it is spectacularly displayed in this taut, uncompromising, glittering book. Most of us are dangerously content with the appearance of things. If that''s you, don''t read this book, which cuts straight to the heart." --Charles Foster, author of A Little Brown Sea and Being a Beast "This is not a book: it is magic, like wandering in the mind of somebody in love. Dorthe Nors loves the coast of the North Sea and the Wadden Sea, it is her land, and her beautifully exact writing seems simple until you smell the salt and seaweed; then you know she''s taken you there. She tells the stories of fisher widows, storm and surge, seals as beings parallel to humans, even the glamorous surfers of Cold Hawaii. It must be true love because she can play with everything she so sharply observes and make it sometimes funny, sometimes chilling, always involving. This a wonderful holiday in a very fine writer''s heart." --Michael Pye, author of The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us " A Line in the World is less a collection of essays than a confluence of eons, of feeling, of inarticulable precision--and it pulled me under. Dorthe Nors writes with the cool might of the North Atlantic tide, coasting from naval hubris and a dwindling, seaside matriarchy to geological phenomena and modern displacement. Such scope and focus is a feat, an occurrence of those poignant, silty histories which only an artist of Nors''s caliber can catch." --Jakob Guanzon, author of Abundance
Target Audience
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Lccn
2022-930640
Dewey Decimal
914.89/504
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20231129
Illustrated
Yes
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