60 Degrees North in The Good Book Guide

‘Growing up on Shetland, the author was always aware of its latitude. Sixty Degrees North was the name of his youth club, a local newspaper, a radio station, a type of beer and a skip-hire company. It made Shetland special and connected it to Greenland, Alaska and St Petersburg, to the mysterious , remote North. However, Malachy Tallack was a young man in search of an end to the waiting that had started when his father left him peacefully fishing by a lake and never returned, tragically killed in a car accident.
His journey around the sixtieth parallel is a way of coming to terms with his loss and his life and an effort to feel himself at home on his return. For the reader it is of interest also as a travelogue, an informative, well-written and well-observed account of a visit to the people at the top of the world.’