Sixty Degrees North [electronic resource] : Around the World in Search of Home
Tallack, Malachy2015
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'Sixty Degrees North is a story that we tell, both to ourselves and to others. It is a story about where - and perhaps also who - we are.'
The sixtieth parallel marks a kind of borderland. It wraps itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden and Norway; it crosses the tip of Greenland and of South-central Alaska; it cuts the great spaces of Russia and Canada in half. The parallel also passes through Shetland, at the very top of the British Isles.
In Sixty Degrees North, Malachy Tallack explores the places that share this latitude, beginning and ending in Shetland, where he has spent most of his life. The book focuses on the landscapes and natural environments of the parallel, and the way that people have interacted with those landscapes. It explores themes of wildness and community, of isolation and engagement, of exile and memory.In addition, Sixty Degrees North is also a deeply personal book, which begins with the author's loss of his father and his troubled relationship with Shetland. Informed by the journeys described, it moves towards a kind of resolution: an acceptance of loss, and ultimately a love of the place Tallack calls 'home'.
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Tallack, Malachy, Author
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[Place of publication not identified] : Polygon, 2015
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Malachy Tallack has written for the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Scottish Review of Books, Caught by the River and many other publications, online and print. He won a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust in 2014, and a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2015. As a singer-songwriter he has released four albums and an EP, and performed in venues across the UK. He is editor of the online magazine The Island Review, and co-editor of Fair Isle: Through the Seasons. He comes from Shetland, and lives in Glasgow.
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9780857908780
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English
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1521020
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