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Gavin Francis - True North: Travels in Arctic Europe, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

True North: Travels in Arctic Europe

Av Gavin Francis

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-09-12
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 235 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Canons
  • Antal sidor: 336
  • Förlag: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 9781837261956
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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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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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