Island Dreams
Mapping an Obsession
(Sprache: Englisch)
An exploration of isolation and connectedness based on thirty years of travel, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Adventures in Human Being and Empire Antarctica
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An exploration of isolation and connectedness based on thirty years of travel, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Adventures in Human Being and Empire Antarctica
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SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARIn Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and great voyages from literature, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness.
Comparing the life of freedom of thirty years of extraordinary travel from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the Galapagos to the Andaman Islands with a life of responsibility as a doctor, community member and parent approaching middle age, Island Dreams riffs on the twinned poles of rest and motion, independence and attachment, never more relevant than in today's perennially connected world.
Illustrated with maps throughout, this is a celebration of human adventures in the world and within our minds.
Autoren-Porträt von Gavin Francis
Gavin Francis is an award-winning writer and GP. He is the author of four books of non-fiction, including Adventures in Human Being, which was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Saltire Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award, and Empire Antarctica, which won Scottish Book of the Year in the SMIT Awards and was shortlisted for both the Ondaatje and Costa Prizes. He has written for the Guardian, The Times, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. His work is published in eighteen languages. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.@gavinfranc gavinfrancis.com
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Gavin Francis
- 2020, Main, 256 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 15,9 x 21,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- ISBN-10: 1786898187
- ISBN-13: 9781786898180
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.09.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Gavin Francis is a wonderful writer - thoughtful, engaging, immensely knowledgeable and supremely human BILL BRYSON
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