{"product_id":"the-almost-nearly-perfect-people-9781250081568","title":"The Almost Nearly Perfect People","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor''\u003c\/i\u003es #1 Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume, \u003ci\u003eThe Almost Nearly Perfect People\u003c\/i\u003e offers up the ideal mixture of intriguing and revealing facts (Laura Miller, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJournalist 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 intriguing of all, what they think of one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy are the Danes so happy, despite having the highest taxes? Do the Finns really have the best education system? Are the Icelanders as feral as they sometimes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528891310423,"sku":"9781250081568","price":17.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250081568.jpg?v=1731873434","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-almost-nearly-perfect-people-9781250081568","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}