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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.
Price: $30.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Books
Publication Date:
February 23, 2021
Trim Size: 8.74 X 6.34 in
ISBN: 9781786898180
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Travel writing, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, SCIENCE / Natural History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, TRAVEL / South America / Ecuador & Galapagos Islands, Islands, Memoirs, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Social & cultural anthropology, Geographical discovery & exploration
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.