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2025-03-17
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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.
They (Iceland) still have to import virtually everything apTart from electricity and fish????
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
评分读了瑞典部分。作者轻松戏谑,想了解点知识的还是看别的故事书吧。
评分看了introduction和iceland部分。本书是一本关于北欧各国的社会随笔&杂感类文章集合,作者传递的信息量并不大,价值也有限。
评分读完对北欧已无爱。。。
听一位来自英国的丹麦女婿谈他眼里的北欧社会,有意思。假如幸福背后有迹可寻,这将是一场再值得不过的旅行。 于我,丹麦不再是只有安徒生、潘多拉、世界上最幸福的国家,“谦卑的骄傲”恰当地描述了丹麦人的性格特点。缴纳全世界最高的税率,却也带给人足够的安全感。“失于外...
评分北欧人是全世界最幸福的人,他们信任他人,生活成功,当我们面对他们,一种直觉的反应是想要挑刺,想用X射线透视他们的破绽。我在写作本书期间,也不能完全克制这种冲动。但是,北欧读者如果看到这本书,请你们原谅。就当我是嫉妒吧,如果这样可以让你们心里好受一点儿。
评分断断续续花了比较长的时间才看完这本书,整体感觉是比较枯燥。原来看名字以为是一本游记,谁知是关于北欧五国的社会人文的介绍。而且由于是英国人写的,对于中国人来说就更难理解一些了吧。 丹麦:由于与欧洲地缘的最为接近,因此最欧洲。人们喜欢参加一些无聊的集体活动,例如...
The Almost Nearly Perfect People pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025