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  • Location: Groningen

Shocked Earth

Shocked Earth

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2000s: .Exquisitely captures the way our lives and identities are interwoven with the land we live on…

  • ISBN: 978-1912235681
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What you need to know before your trail

Femke, her mother Trijn and her grandfather have very different ideas about how to run their family farm. Tensions between mother and daughter are growing; Femke wants to switch to sustainable growing principles, whilst her mother considers this an attack on tradition. To make matters worse, their home province of Groningen is experiencing a series of earthquakes caused by drilling for gas at a site close to their farm. While the cracks and splinters in their farmhouse increase, the authorities and the state-owned gas company refuse to offer the local farming community any help.

Travel Guide

Groningen

The capital of the north, Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of the country.

Schokland

Schokland is a former island in the Dutch Zuiderzee, in the municipality of Noordoostpolder. Schokland was an elongated strip of peat land which ceased to be an island when the Noordoostpolder was reclaimed from the sea in 1942

 

BookTrail Boarding Pass: Shocked Earth

Destination/location: Groningen, Schokland    Author/guide: Gerard Reve   Departure Time: 1944

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