Between eternal summer and deepest night

How I experienced the eight seasons in northern Sweden
By Bernadette Olderdissen

256 pages with 55 color illustrations, eight illustrations, and one color map. Paperback. 21 cm.

Experience the Nordic seasons up close

Author and journalist Bernadette Olderdissen fulfills her dream of nature and wilderness with an experiment in Swedish Lapland:
As a resident of a village of 200 people on the Arctic Circle, she wants to experience the eight seasons of the Sami calendar for a year.

Escape from the city to a slower life

In January, she is welcomed by the frozen sea and snowy forests, by darkness and the northern lights. Her new neighbors help her adjust to her new surroundings – and recognize the first signs of spring. And as the light grows brighter and the air warmer, Lapland's nature gives Bernadette life lessons she never expected.

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"A wonderful book about dreams lived out. Instructive, but never didactic, thoughtful, but also self-ironic, and above all, full of life." Backnanger Kreiszeitung

Bernadette Olderdissen , born in 1981, is a German travel writer and journalist. Her articles have appeared in Spiegel online, taz, Swiss Globetrotter Magazin, and Stuttgarter Zeitung, among others, and her stories have been featured in various travel anthologies. She has published several travel guides and writes about Swedish Lapland, where she lives in a small community surrounded by sea, forests, and reindeer. She also vlogs about her experiences in the north on YouTube.

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