Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession, Gavin Francis

Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession, Gavin FrancisNew Paperback 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. Francis draws on thirty years of island adventures from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the Galapagos to the Andaman Islands. He contrasts these quests for freedom with the demands for

Drawing on their surviving literature and poetry and subtly layering European eyewitness accounts against the grain

What is Hagitude

The Lake District

ranging from lieutenants in command of gunboats at the battle of Copenhagen (1801) through captains of line-of- battle ships at the Nile and at Trafalgar (1805)

and what can be done to protect it

a box of delights that opens up an entire literary culture to the inquisitive reader

but she was never dissuaded

Find out why they have done this every Full Moon for the last eight years

and Lord Leverhulme's celebrated garden suburb at Port Sunlight

From the author of The Girl of Ink and Stars

presenting their natural

She brings the tales into the twenty-first century