Island Dreams - Mapping an Obsession

SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR In Island Dreams , Gavin Francis combines stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and myth, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness. Francis draws on thirty years of island adventures from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the Galapagos to the Andaman Islands. He contrasts these quests for freedom with the demands for commitment required as a doctor, community member and parent. Island Dreams riffs on the twin poles of rest and motion, independence and attachment, never more relevant than in today''s ever-connected world.

About the author

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.

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Product details

• Authors: Gavin Francis, Francis Gavin, Gavin Grancis
• Assisted by: Cal Flyn (Introduction), Flyn Cal (Introduction)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9781786898203
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-820-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Canons
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Europe; 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, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs