Island Dreams : Mapping an Obsession
Publisher: Canongate Books
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Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year
In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis combines stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and myth, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness. Drawing on thirty years of island adventures from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the Galapagos to the Andaman Islands, he explores what draws us to these remote places and what they reveal about our deepest desires.
Francis contrasts these quests for freedom with the demands for commitment required as a doctor, community member and parent. Island Dreams riffs on the twin poles of rest and motion, independence and attachment, never more relevant than in today's ever-connected world.
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