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The Almost Nearly Perfect People

- Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Af: Michael Booth Engelsk Paperback

The Almost Nearly Perfect People

- Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Af: Michael Booth Engelsk Paperback
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The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes.

''Neutral'' Sweden is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world.

Finns have the largest per capita gun ownership after the US and Yemen.

54 per cent of Icelanders believe in elves.

Norway is the richest country on earth.

5 per cent of Danish men have had sex with an animal.

Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians, on and off, for over ten years, perplexed by their many strange paradoxes and character traits and equally bemused by the unquestioning enthusiasm for all things Nordic and hygge that has engulfed the rest of the world.

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, the secrets of their success and, most intriguing of all, what they think of each other. Along the way a more nuanced, often darker picture emerges of a region plagued by taboos, characterised by suffocating parochialism and populated by extremists of various shades.

''The next Bill Bryson.’ New York Times

''Beautifully observed and very funny'' Rory Stewart

Winner of the Best Narrative Travel Book Award from the British Guild of Travel Writers

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The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes.

''Neutral'' Sweden is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world.

Finns have the largest per capita gun ownership after the US and Yemen.

54 per cent of Icelanders believe in elves.

Norway is the richest country on earth.

5 per cent of Danish men have had sex with an animal.

Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians, on and off, for over ten years, perplexed by their many strange paradoxes and character traits and equally bemused by the unquestioning enthusiasm for all things Nordic and hygge that has engulfed the rest of the world.

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, the secrets of their success and, most intriguing of all, what they think of each other. Along the way a more nuanced, often darker picture emerges of a region plagued by taboos, characterised by suffocating parochialism and populated by extremists of various shades.

''The next Bill Bryson.’ New York Times

''Beautifully observed and very funny'' Rory Stewart

Winner of the Best Narrative Travel Book Award from the British Guild of Travel Writers

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 416
ISBN-13: 9780099546078
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0099546078
Kategori: Social- & Kulturhistorie
Udg. Dato: 12 feb 2015
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 131mm
Højde: 201mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 12 feb 2015
Forfatter(e): Michael Booth
Forfatter(e) Michael Booth

Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie

ISBN-13 9780099546078

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 416

Udgave

Længde 26mm

Bredde 131mm

Højde 201mm

Udg. Dato 12 feb 2015

Oplagsdato 12 feb 2015

Forlag Vintage Publishing