Gavin Francis

Island Dreams

Mapping an Obsession

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 6170
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9781786898180
• ISBN-10: 1786898187
• Artikelnr.: 57882112

Autorenporträt

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

Rezensionen

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