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Book of the Week: Sixty Degrees North

Sandy Grierson

Malachy Tallack

Laurence Wareing

Kirsteen Cameron

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Fort Smith, Canada, is the next stop on Malachy Tallack's journey along the 60th parallel.

Fort Smith, just inside Canada's Northwest Territories, is the next stop on Malachy Tallack's journey around the sixtieth parallel.

Wrestling with notions of home and belonging, writer Malachy Tallack has set out from Shetland on a journey around the sixtieth parallel. Today, he arrives in Canada, bound for Fort Smith, just inside the Northwest Territories.

Marking a borderland between 'near' and 'far north', the sixtieth parallel wraps itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden and Norway; it crosses the tip of Greenland and of South Central Alaska; it cuts the great spaces of Russia and Canada in half. The parallel also passes through Shetland, at the very top of the British Isles.

Tallack travelled to some of the places that share this latitude, beginning in Shetland, where he has spent most of his life. Focusing on the landscapes and natural environments of the parallel, and the way that people have interacted with those landscapes, Tallack explores themes of wildness and community, of isolation and engagement, of exile and memory.


Reader: Sandy Grierson
Writer: Malachy Tallack
Abridger: Laurence Wareing
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.

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Malachy Tallack's book about the sixtieth parallel explores notions of home and belonging

Malachy Tallack journeys around the sixtieth parallel, exploring themes of wildness and community, of isolation and engagement, of exile and memory

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