Wandern – Ein stiller Rausch

For seven days, a sixty-year-old woman and a thirty-year-old man wander in the solitude of the far north, in the archaic landscape of Swedish Lapland, the homeland of the Sámi, the last indigenous people in Europe. At night, doors to dreams open, and during the day, the rhythm of their steps triggers memories. Peace and war, birth and death, horizon lines, fire, grass, and water are the themes of this book. Hiking—a quiet intoxication, a tapestry of metaphors, stories, and dreams—is a meditation on the current threatened state of the world. It is a book about farewell and beginning, a book of slowness, a book of silence, a book about the appropriation of life through walking.