The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Inside the Nordic miracle - the truth behind the world’s happiest nations. - Couverture souple

Booth, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099546078 ISBN 13 : 9780099546078

Editeur : Vintage, 2015

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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 an

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099546078
• ISBN 13: 9780099546078
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH; kundenservice@penguinrandomhouse.de; ; Neumarkter Straße 28; München; Bayern; 81673; Allemagne