The Best Six Books on How to Use Story for Change
My 2022 book, Sea Sagas of the North, forms the backdrop for this list on the best storytellers for change. There are shadows on this shining sea. Fish cities have shrunk to hamlets, old ports have been levelled and harbours are full of warming water, yet there’s barely a single ship. An Arctic author asks, “how do you say goodbye to a glacier? A burnished skipper, four score years of staring at horizons, leans across the table and says, you know, we were more tolerant in those days when we sailed and steamed and brought home stories.” They travelled on a sea that once was dry and now was warming once again, washing at the lower lands. It seems more storms are gathering. Now could come a crushing silence. Unless we can find new ways of telling stories and sagas.
Read more...
Read less...
