Almost Nearly Perfect People
Michael Booth,Michael Booth
ISBN 10: 0099546078 ISBN 13: 9780099546078
Published by Vintage Publishing, 2015
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A funny, fearless tour behind Scandinavia’s polished image.
Michael Booth has long been perplexed by strange paradoxes and character traits of the people of his adopted homelands – and equally bemused by the unquestioning enthusiasm for all things Nordic and hygge that has engulfed the rest of the world.
From his home in Denmark, he travels through Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland to uncover the truth behind the myth of the happiest people on Earth. 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.
Part travelogue, part social investigation, and wholly entertaining, Booth asks tough questions about what happiness really means, how culture shapes wellbeing, and what the rest of the world can - and can’t - learn from the North.
‘The next Bill Bryson’ New York Times
‘Beautifully observed and very funny’ Rory Stewart
‘Comprehensive and occasionally downright hilarious’ Mariella Frostrup, Observer
About the Author: Michael Booth is the author of six books, including the international bestseller, The Almost Nearly Perfect People, winner of the British Guild of Travel Writers award for Book of the Year, and Sushi and Beyond, which won the Guild of Food Writers award.
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Title: Almost Nearly Perfect People
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 2015
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