Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Chosen as BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week

'It is a brave book . . . and a beautiful book' -- Robert Macfarlane

'A promising debut from the new school of travel writing examines the significance of place and what it means to belong' , 'Where I ... cleave to Tallack is in his belief that our relationship with place is fundamentally emotional (or should be)' , 'This ... is a book about belonging rather than a conventional travelogue. Tallack is one of a burgeoning group of young travel writers of whom Robert Macfarlane is the cynosure who have reinvigorated their increasingly tired genre with elements of psychogeography: the study of how places make us feel'

'Malachy Tallack is the real deal, a writer given over to pure curiosity, honest witness and that most precious of gifts, an unselfconscious sense of wonder . . . not just a vibrant new voice, but a wise, questioning and highly sophisticated talent' -- John Burnside

'If you're going to bring out a book of this type - and with 'North'; in the title - you'd better have something important to say and a fresh, exciting way of saying it; the fact that first-time author Malachy Tallack succeeds on both counts is nothing short of remarkable... he takes the brave step of putting himself right at the heart of the story, using his own experiences to ask searching, never-less-than fascinating questions about identity, homecoming and what it means to truly belong to a place... For anyone with an interest in how we construct answers to that most straightforward-seeming of questions - 'where are you from' - it is essential reading'

'Elegant, meditative and wry . . . Tallack takes the reader on some fascinating excursions' -- Gavin Francis

'a subtle, thoughtful study of life on the sixtieth parallel', 'I thoroughly enjoyed this book and learnt a lot' -- Sara Wheeler, Financial Times

'There is compelling honesty and much wisdom in Tallack's brave adventure', 'Malachy is a fine, sensitive writer with an eye for detail and a talent for descriptive prose' -- Gavin Bell, Herald

'This is a beautifully introspective book about the search for home and identity amidst the changes of time and the trappings of place' -- Rebecca Foster, Nudge Book

'It is a strength of the book that it asks questions of its readers, and provokes a response that will be as individual as the circumstances of the person holding it in his or her hands... although 60 Degrees North is a book about a journey, and a very personal journey at that, it is one which provokes in the reader their own internal discussion about place, attachment, and what it means to be home' -- Elsewhere Journal