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Gavin Francis was born in Scotland in 1975, and has travelled widely on all seven continents. He has crossed Eurasia by motorcycle, and spent a year in Antarctica. He works as a medical doctor as well as a writer.

When travelling he is most interested in the way that places shapes the lives and stories of the people who live in them.

His first book, True North: Travels in Arctic Europe, explores the history of Europe's expansion northwards from the first Greek explorers to the Polar expeditions of the late 19th and 20th centuries. It was nominated for a William Mills Prize for Polar Books. Of it Robert Macfarlane wrote: 'a seriously accomplished first book, by a versatile and interesting writer... it is set apart by the elegance and grace o ...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 9,194 ratings · 1,105 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors

	Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum 3.89 avg rating — 4,584 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence 4.05 avg rating — 1,498 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body 3.87 avg rating — 706 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins 4.03 avg rating — 612 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession 3.52 avg rating — 447 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intensive Care: A GP, a Community & Covid-19 3.95 avg rating — 396 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	True North: Travels in Arctic Europe 3.95 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Free for All: Why the NHS Is Worth Saving 4.17 avg rating — 203 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unfragile Mind: A Physician's Call for Restoring Hope and Humanity to Mental Health Care 4.08 avg rating — 72 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bridge Between Worlds: A Brief History of Connection 3.63 avg rating — 40 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“ancient custom of swearing by the testes (hence, ‘testify’).”
― Gavin Francis, Adventures in Human Being

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“Nowadays it is possible to say that lives are connected, by transplant, across the thresholds of life and death. Alec Finlay, Taigh – A Wilding Garden”
― Gavin Francis, Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum

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“We can taste what's in our mouths, touch what's within our reach, smell within hundreds of metres and hear within tens of miles. But it's only through our vision that we are in communication with the sun and stars.”
― Gavin Francis

tags: health, inspirational, science, vision

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