Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession

Gavin Francis

$31.50

Publication Date: February 23rd, 2021

Publisher:

Canongate Books

ISBN:

9781786898180

Pages:

256

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Description

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.

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