Why read A Line in the World?

Book cover of A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast

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Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It's a recurring pattern in my life. An instinct.

There is a line that stretches from the northernmost tip of Denmark to where the Wadden Sea meets…

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Why read it?

1 author picked A Line in the World as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Marcel Krueger

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This is not only a wonderful travel book following the coast of the North Sea from the Kattegat to Amsterdam, but like other outstanding place-writing books these days a meditation on the pitfalls of history and memory and how we face it individually.

Not an escapist book, but still perfect reading for the dark season when rain or snow howl around the house and you're snug inside, reading on the sofa.

From Marcel's 3 favorite reads in 2023.