Island Dreams - Mapping an Obsession

Informationen zum Autor 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 twenty languages. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. @gavinfranc | gavinfrancis.com Klappentext Blending stories of his own travels with great voyages from literature and philosophical exploration, Gavin Francis considers the unique appeal of islands. Francis also wrote "Adventures In Human Being" and "Empire Antarctica". 'Gavin Francis is a wonderful writer' Bill Bryson 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 Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis gavinfrancis.com

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Gavin Francis is a wonderful writer - thoughtful, engaging, immensely knowledgeable and supremely human BILL BRYSON

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Francis, Francis Gavin
• Assisted by: Cal Flyn (Introduction), Flyn Cal (Introduction)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2020
• EAN: 9781786898180
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-818-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 221 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Memoirs, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, Faroe Islands, TRAVEL / South America / Ecuador & Galapagos Islands, Northern Scotland, Highlands & Islands, Northern Scotland, Highlands and Islands, Galapagos Islands