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A line in the world : a year on the North Sea coast

Title
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.
Author
Nors, Dorthe, 1970-
Publication
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022]
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
  • Waight, Caroline
  • Parkins, Signe, 1979-
  • Gower, Neil
Description
238 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm
Summary
"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."--
Uniform Title
En linge i verden. English
Alternative Title
En linge i verden.
Subject
  • Nors, Dorthe, 1970- > Travel
  • Nors, Dorthe, 1970-
  • Travelers' writings
  • Voyages and travels
  • Travel
  • Denmark > Description and travel
  • North Sea Coast (Denmark) > Description and travel
  • Denmark > History
  • Denmark
  • Denmark > North Sea Coast
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies.
  • Essays.
  • History.
  • Travel writing.
Note
  • "A Line in the World was first published as En linge i verden by Gads Forlag in Denmark, 2021."--Title page verso.
Language (note)
  • In English; translated from the original Danish.
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.
Call Number
JFD 23-171
ISBN
  • 164445209X
  • 9781644452097
OCLC
1289243541
Author
Nors, Dorthe, 1970- author.
Title
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.
Publisher
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
still image
cartographic image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Language
In English; translated from the original Danish.
Added Author
Waight, Caroline, translator.
Parkins, Signe, 1979- illustrator.
Gower, Neil, cartographer.
Research Call Number
JFD 23-171
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