There is a line that stretches from the northernmost tip of Denmark to where the Wadden Sea meets Holland in the south-west. Dorthe Nors, one of Denmark's most acclaimed contemporary writers, grew up on this line; a native Jutlander, her childhood was spent among the storm-battered trees and windblasted beaches of the North Sea coast. In 'A Line in the World,' her first book of non-fiction, she recounts a lifetime spent in thrall to this coastline - both as a child, and as an adult returning to live in this mysterious, shifting landscape. This is the story of the violent collisions between the people who settled in these wild landscapes and the vagaries of the natural world. It is a story of storm surges and shipwrecks, sand dunes that engulf houses and power stations leaching chemicals into the water, of sun-creased mothers and children playing on shingle beaches.
| ISBN: | 9781782277972 |
| Publication date: | 7th September 2023 |
| Author: | Dorthe Nors |
| Publisher: | Pushkin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Primary Genre | Biographies & Autobiographies |
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There is a line that stretches from the northernmost tip of Denmark to where the Wadden Sea meets Holland in the south-west. Dorthe Nors, one of Denmark's most acclaimed contemporary writers, grew up on this line; a native Jutlander, her childhood was spent among the storm-battered trees and windblasted beaches of the North Sea coast. In 'A Line in the World,' her first book of non-fiction, she recounts a lifetime spent in thrall to this coastline - both as a child, and as an adult returning to live in this mysterious, shifting landscape. This is the story of the violent collisions between the people who settled in these wild landscapes and the vagaries of the natural world. It is a story of storm surges and shipwrecks, sand dunes that engulf houses and power stations leaching chemicals into the water, of sun-creased mothers and children playing on shingle beaches.
A Line in the World features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Memoirs, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure
A Line in the World is available in Paperback, Hardback
A Line in the World was written by Dorthe Nors and published by Pushkin Press
A Line in the World has 240 pages
£9.89
