图书标签: 北欧 文化 旅行 英文原版 欧洲 travelling 英文版 文化之旅
发表于2024-05-18
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As heard on Book of the Week, Radio 4
The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: why are the Danes the happiest people in the world, despite having the highest taxes? If the Finns really have the best education system, how come they still think all Swedish men are gay? Are the Icelanders really feral? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastical oil wealth? And why do all of them hate the Swedes?
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 that has engulfed the rest of the world, whether it be for their food, television, social systems or chunky knitwear.
In this timely book 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.
They may very well be almost nearly perfect, but it isn't easy being Scandinavian.
Michael Booth contributes to numerous British and foreign magazines and all of the UK's broadsheet newspapers. He is the author of four works of non-fiction: Eat, Pray, Eat, which was nominated for a British Travel Press Award in 2012; Just As Well I'm Leaving, nominated for the Irish Times first writers award; Sacré Cordon Bleu, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week; and Sushi and Beyond, winner of the Guild of Food Writers award in 2010. He lives in Denmark with his wife and children.
Bitterly judgmental and condescending
评分2016-08-16 emmm 可怕两年就过去了,当年在书店里看到的中文版读了一半然后一直没有电子版就一直没有读完(因为不想买纸质回家emmm 最后实在太无聊,于是下单读完它....学习好好多小知识呢
评分因为他和我一样都是住在丹麦的外国人,所以很多观察对我来说都很“亲切”。有时候也会想如果是一个北欧人来写这本书又会是个什么样子,但北欧人自己又真的能理解自己吗?
评分为芬兰冰岛行程做准备的书。去到冰岛和芬兰的时候才更有体会。
评分去丹麦和瑞典前就买来读,回来后断断续续一个月终于读完了。书的前99%讲almost,最后1%讲perfect。对于印象中的北欧,3周的生活体验的北欧,书中的北欧有了不一样的感觉和统一。作者的幽默和常常的戏精(stop me!!!)表达方式实在太有趣了,至于客观与否,还需要探索
生活在一个高寒、高税率、社会单调的地区,会有什么幸福感可言?但它偏偏被誉为“人间的乐土”,没错,我说的正是北欧。 作为一个英国人,记者迈克尔•布斯将他的第二祖国安在了丹麦,结果他发现北欧人竟然比英国人还内敛沉默。斯堪的纳维亚半岛输出了众多品牌和文化,它们相...
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