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Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession
In 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.--GAVIN FRANCIS
Book Details
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- Publish Date: Feb 23rd, 2021
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: Main - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 6.20in - 1.00in - 1.40lb
- EAN: 9781786898180
- Categories: • South America - Ecuador & Galapagos Islands• Europe - Great Britain• Memoirs
About the Author
Gavin Francis is an award-winning writer and doctor. 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.
Praise for this book
"Beyond the fine detail and the erudition of his medical investigations, what marks Francis out as a perfect guide to our physical selves is his sensitivity to metaphor, simile and analogy, his deftness with language . . . an astonishing, moving, and enchanting book" New Statesman
"This sort of book has been done before but not nearly so well . . . Adventures in Human Being, with its deft mix of the clinical and the lyrical, is a triumph of the eloquent brain and the compassionate heart" Wall Street Journal
Praise for Adventures in Human Being: "Engaging and edifying . . . breathes life into the study of anatomy by situating it in the larger landscape of human experience, connecting the body to art, literature, music, astronomy, and history" New York Review of Books
"Gavin Francis is a wonderful writer--thoughtful, engaging, immensely knowledgeable, and supremely human"--BILL BRYSON
"An intoxicating voyage during which maps become fictions and fictions verifiable facts. Myths of returning and older legends carry us out in a shared fugue of obsession and release. Here is a worthy companion to the dream labyrinths of Borges"--IAIN SINCLAIR
"A thrilling book - beautiful and spare at once . . . A real achievement"--TIM DEE