The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
by:
Michael Booth (author)
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey...
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Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are,
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781250061966 (1250061962)
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 388
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
History,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Culture,
Politics,
Sociology,
Psychology,
Scandinavian Literature,
Denmark,
Sweden
This is basically the world’s longest magazine article. I kept reading because the author had a great idea for a book: we in the English-speaking world are always idealizing the Nordic countries, but we don’t actually know much about what it’s like to live there, nor do we visit them very often or l...
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