{"product_id":"a-line-in-the-world-dorthe-nors-9781644452097","title":"A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA celebrated Danish writer explores the unsung histories and geographies of her beloved slice of the world\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMe, 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.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through a deep, personal engagement with this singular landscape, \u003ci\u003eA Line in the World \u003c\/i\u003eaccesses 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorthe Nors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 164445209X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644452097\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2022 pg. 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2022 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/09\/2022","brand":"Dorthe Nors","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43945847849215,"sku":"9781644452097","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b6998ddc-95e6-47ff-9654-509603ce7292.jpg?v=1681510103","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-line-in-the-world-dorthe-nors-9781644452097","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}