Gavin Francis

Adventures in Human Being

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Oliver Sacks meets Bear Grylls in this unique voyage around the human body, from the prize-winning author of Empire Antarctica. Now available in paperback.

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Produktdetails

• Wellcome
• Verlag: Profile Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9781781253427
• ISBN-10: 1781253420
• Artikelnr.: 43850496

Autorenporträt

Gavin Francis has worked across four continents as a surgeon, emergency physician, medical officer with the British Antarctic Survey and latterly as a GP. He's the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Adventures in Human Being, which was a BMA Book of the Year, and Shapeshifters. His books have won the SMIT Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Saltire Award for Non-Fiction and been shortlisted for the Ondaatje and Costa Prizes. He also writes for the Guardian, The Times, the London Review of Books and Granta. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and children.

Rezensionen

A sober and beautiful book about the landscape of the human body: thought-provoking and eloquent. Hilary Mantel