A review by emeraldwhatnot
The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are by Michael Pye

1.0

I read about this book in an Economist review in 2014 - and unfortunately this disjointed account of the North Sea (read: the Netherlands) did not meet my expectations or, in my view, coherently address the thesis implied in its title. This is a classic example of an author missing the forest for the trees- Pye gets bogged down by local anecdotes that for him may fit into a larger narrative, but for a reader not familiar with the historical context provides nothing but a muddled and isolated, if interesting, bits of information.