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True North: Travels in Arctic Europe

Francis Gavin
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781837261956
Publisert
2024-09-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Canongate Canons
Vekt
233 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Francis Gavin
Introduction by
Thubron, Colin

Biographical note

Gavin Francis is an award-winning writer and GP. He is the author of ten non-fiction books, including Island Dreams, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2020; Adventures in Human Being, which was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Saltire Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award; Empire Antarctica, which won Scottish Book of the Year in the SMIT Awards and was shortlisted for both the Ondaatje and Costa Prizes; and Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence, which was a Sunday Times bestseller. He has written for the Guardian, The Times, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

True North: Travels in Arctic Europe

Francis Gavin
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
Francis Gavin
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
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Fluent, subtle, tough and often beautiful, <i>True North </i>stands alongside Peter Davidson's <i>The Idea of North</i> and Joanna Kavenna's <i>The Ice Museum</i>, as a significant recent addition to the Arctic canon

- ROBERT MACFARLANE,

The book is threaded with moments of infectious joy . . . where the past and the land and the writer elide, travel writing properly endures

- COLIN THUBRON,

A wonderful writer

- BILL BRYSON,

Se alle

A deep empathy with the land and its history runs like a golden thread through every chapter

- SARA WHEELER, * Spectator *

Thank goodness for people like Gavin Francis who are prepared not only to visit our northerly neighbours, but write about them in a way that shows how much of their history is our history too

- ROGER COX, * Scotsman *

Engaging

* THE OBSERVER *

An accomplished teller of travellers' tales . . . really gets under the skin of Europe's magical North

* SUNDAY HERALD *

Francis is good company, and a good writer

* SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS *

A writing style that reminded me of the great travel writer Bruce Chatwin

- RODDY WOOMBLE, * THE GREAT OUTDOORS *

Driven by a yearning to experience the vast skies and frozen beauty of the North, Gavin Francis goes in search of the people living along the northern limits of Europe. From the first Greek explorers to the Vikings to modern polar adventurers, he travels through history and legend to find out why - and how - we are drawn to the North. Francis's encounters in the Arctic teach him as much about that sense of longing for the North, and of belonging to the North as the seafarers, warriors, monks and poets whose stories he follows. In Shetland, the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, Svalbard and Lapland, Francis finds a way of life characterised by both peace and unease, threatened as it is by the shadow of climate change and the tense, ever-increasing importance of Arctic Europe in global power politics.
Les mer
The first book from Sunday Times bestselling author Gavin Francis, a travelogue of his adventures in the far north, introduced by Colin Thubron
Fluent, subtle, tough and often beautiful, True North stands alongside Peter Davidson's The Idea of North and Joanna Kavenna's The Ice Museum, as a significant recent addition to the Arctic canon

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Fluent, subtle, tough and often beautiful, <i>True North </i>stands alongside Peter Davidson's <i>The Idea of North</i> and Joanna Kavenna's <i>The Ice Museum</i>, as a significant recent addition to the Arctic canon

- ROBERT MACFARLANE,

The book is threaded with moments of infectious joy . . . where the past and the land and the writer elide, travel writing properly endures

- COLIN THUBRON,

A wonderful writer

- BILL BRYSON,

Se alle

A deep empathy with the land and its history runs like a golden thread through every chapter

- SARA WHEELER, * Spectator *

Thank goodness for people like Gavin Francis who are prepared not only to visit our northerly neighbours, but write about them in a way that shows how much of their history is our history too

- ROGER COX, * Scotsman *

Engaging

* THE OBSERVER *

An accomplished teller of travellers' tales . . . really gets under the skin of Europe's magical North

* SUNDAY HERALD *

Francis is good company, and a good writer

* SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS *

A writing style that reminded me of the great travel writer Bruce Chatwin

- RODDY WOOMBLE, * THE GREAT OUTDOORS *

Driven by a yearning to experience the vast skies and frozen beauty of the North, Gavin Francis goes in search of the people living along the northern limits of Europe. From the first Greek explorers to the Vikings to modern polar adventurers, he travels through history and legend to find out why - and how - we are drawn to the North. Francis's encounters in the Arctic teach him as much about that sense of longing for the North, and of belonging to the North as the seafarers, warriors, monks and poets whose stories he follows. In Shetland, the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, Svalbard and Lapland, Francis finds a way of life characterised by both peace and unease, threatened as it is by the shadow of climate change and the tense, ever-increasing importance of Arctic Europe in global power politics.
Les mer
The first book from Sunday Times bestselling author Gavin Francis, a travelogue of his adventures in the far north, introduced by Colin Thubron
Fluent, subtle, tough and often beautiful, True North stands alongside Peter Davidson's The Idea of North and Joanna Kavenna's The Ice Museum, as a significant recent addition to the Arctic canon

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781837261956
Publisert
2024-09-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Canongate Canons
Vekt
233 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Francis Gavin
Introduction by
Thubron, Colin

Biographical note

Gavin Francis is an award-winning writer and GP. He is the author of ten non-fiction books, including Island Dreams, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2020; Adventures in Human Being, which was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Saltire Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award; Empire Antarctica, which won Scottish Book of the Year in the SMIT Awards and was shortlisted for both the Ondaatje and Costa Prizes; and Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence, which was a Sunday Times bestseller. He has written for the Guardian, The Times, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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