RANDMEER (EENL) / Olaf Kanter

Anyone looking out over the North Sea from Helgoland would never think that it wasn't there. But ten thousand years ago, you could walk from here to England. The sea was 100 metres deeper than it is today. In his essay on the marginal sea of the Atlantic, Olaf Kanter reports on the landscapes that were submerged. 8,400 years ago, a tsunami flooded the settlement of Doggerland and the water continued to rise. Today it stands 13 metres high above what was once inhabited. Kanter repeatedly intersperses his story of the sea and its landscapes with personal memories. From private sailing trips or his reporting assignments, for example on an oil rig or on board a submarine.

In the appendix, the book contains specific and special tips and links to destinations. QR codes take you further. Maps provide orientation.

Olaf Kanter is a journalist and sailor. He studied English and geosciences. After working for the daily newspaper ‘WELT’ and the marine magazine ‘mare’, he joined SPIEGEL ONLINE's politics department in 2008. He has been in charge of the SPIEGEL news website since 2017. He has been sailing since his school days, circumnavigated the southern part of the Baltic Sea in his 8.70 metre coastal cruiser BIJOU in 2016 and is now the owner of a classic wooden boat.

142 pages, with photographs, maps and four-colour illustrations, hardcover with ribbon marker, size 15 x 21.5 cm.

European essays on nature and landscape (EENL)

In its EENL series, Hamburg-based Klaas Jarchow Media Buchverlag (KJM) brings together texts by authors on landscapes and natural phenomena in Germany and Europe. The edition is intended to create an up-to-date European library of landscapes and natural phenomena. A wide variety of landscapes are described in their peculiarities. The authors have free rein, their personal approach to the respective landscape determines and guides the text. They are free to choose their focus, be it geological history, biology, politics or poetry.

The high-quality and lovingly designed books in the European essays on nature and landscape series are printed by the Austrian printing company Gugler to the highest possible sustainable and health-friendly standard. Only materials that are harmless to humans, animals and the environment are used for climate-positive production.