Sixty Degrees North

Sixty Degrees North
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9781681771885
ISBN-13 : 1681771888
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Book Synopsis Sixty Degrees North by : Malachy Tallack

Download or read book Sixty Degrees North written by Malachy Tallack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixtieth parallel marks a borderland between the northern and southern worlds. Wrapping itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden, and Norway, it crosses the tip of Greenland and the southern coast of Alaska, and slices the great expanses of Russia and Canada in half. The parallel also passes through Shetland, where Malachy Tallack has spent most of his life.In Sixty Degrees North, Tallack travels westward, exploring the landscapes of the parallel and the ways that people have interacted with those landscapes, highlighting themes of wildness and community, isolation and engagement, exile and memory.An intimate journey of the heart and mind, Sixty Degrees North begins with the author's loss of his father and his own troubled relationship with Shetland, and concludes with an embrace of the place he calls home.


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