Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home (Hardcover)

from technodiabla

Autobiography/travel memoir about the author's trip around the 60th parallel (Shetland- his home, Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Siberia, St. Petersburg, Finland, Sweden, Norway). His personal quest to connect to his own home after losing his father was a bit rambling and sentimental, but the descrip...

from Kristelh

I enjoy travel journals and I enjoy reading about grief (I know that doesn't sound right). In this book by Malachy Tallack, writes about his trip around the world in search of home. The author is a Shetlander. I knew very little about the Shetlands; where it was, who owns the islands. The trip st...

from PDCRead

When living and studying London Tallack's father was sadly killed in a car accident. At a total loss he feels the pull of the Northern world once again. Once there he has trouble finding peace, feeling hollowed out by grief. Shetland is on the sixtieth latitude, just short of the Artic circle, an...

from linda.a.

From the evocative opening sentence of Malachy Tallack's moving account of the journey he made, following the 60th parallel westwards, from his home in Shetland, to Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Siberia, St Petersburg, Finland and Aland, Sweden and Norway and, finally, back to Shetland, I felt that ...

from linda.a.

From the evocative opening sentence of Malachy Tallack's moving account of the journey he made, following the 60th parallel westwards, from his home in Shetland, to Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Siberia, St Petersburg, Finland and Aland, Sweden and Norway and, finally, back to Shetland, I felt that ...