Island dreams : mapping an obsession /
by Francis, Gavin.
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BookPublisher: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2020Description: 246 pages : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781786898180 (hbk.) :; 1786898187 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 910.9142 FRASubject(s): Francis, Gavin -- Travel | Islands | Maps | Travel and Tourism | Travel and TourismSummary: 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. Comparing the life of freedom of thirty years of extraordinary travel from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the Galapagos to the Andaman Islands with a life of responsibility as a doctor, community member and parent approaching middle age, 'Island Dreams' riffs on the twinned poles of rest and motion, independence and attachment, never more relevant than in today's perennially connected world.
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| 910.602 SCH 1000 places to see before you die | 910.911 FOT Frozen planet : a world beyond imagination / | 910.9113 WIL The ice balloon: one man's dramatic attempt to discover the North Pole by balloon | 910.9142 FRA Island dreams : mapping an obsession / | 910.9163 BAR Titanic: a night remembered | 910.9163 BAR Titanic: 9 hours to hell, the survivors' story | 910.9163 CRU Cruise guide to Europe & the Mediterranean. |
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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. Comparing the life of freedom of thirty years of extraordinary travel from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the Galapagos to the Andaman Islands with a life of responsibility as a doctor, community member and parent approaching middle age, 'Island Dreams' riffs on the twinned poles of rest and motion, independence and attachment, never more relevant than in today's perennially connected world.
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