The Christian Science Monitor's #1 Best Book of the Year
A witty?? informative?? and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume?? ??The Almost Nearly Perfect People offers up the ideal mixture of intriguing and revealing facts?? (Laura Miller?? Salon).
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years?? and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. 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 in