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Author: Malachy Tallack
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Imprint: Pegasus Books
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.431kg
ISBN: 9781639361656
ISBN 10: 1639361650
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 02 August 2022
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
A memoir remarkable for its intimacy, wisdom, and radiant prose. Tallack renders descriptions of his emotional landscape as delicately as his painterly descriptions of the physical world. An enthralling meditation on place. -- Kirkus Reviews A new kind of travel writing that emphasizes and explores the relationship between people and place. -- Providence Journal A remarkable survey of cultures, climates and histories. [Tallack's] writing is thoughtfully composed, beautiful and often surprising. An extended meditation on longing and belonging, on personal ties to place and on the particular nature of a certain band of earth and sea. -- Shelf Awareness A subtle, thoughtful study of life on the sixtieth parallel. Highly enjoyable. -- The Financial Times Examines the significance of place and what it means to belong. This is a book about belonging. Tallack is one of a burgeoning group of young travel writers who have reinvigorated the genre with elements of psychogeography: the study of how places make us feel. --Will Self The Guardian It is a brave book--and a beautiful book. --Robert Macfarlane, New York Times bestselling author Lovely and evocative. A meditation on community, on humans' relationship to the land, on what it means to belong to a place, on what makes a place truly a home. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer The book's real power comes from Tallack's poet's eye. -- The New York Times Book Review The history is captivating and adds context to each place visited. This book balances history, travel, and culture on an interesting path around the world. -- Library Journal Throughout his travels, Tallack beautifully sketches a sort of emotional geography of place, a yearning to connect with communities and landscapes. -- Dallas Morning News Praise for Malachy Tallack's Sixty Degrees North:
Author Information
Malachy Tallack is the award-winning author of three previous books: Sixty Degrees North, The Un-Discovered Islands, and, most recently, a novel, The Valley at the Centre of the World. He has received both a New Writers Award and the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship from the Scottish Book Trust, and as a singer-songwriter has released four albums and an EP. Malachy grew up in the Shetland Islands and currently lives in central Scotland.
