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Adventures in Human Being
Gavin Francis
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Description for Adventures in Human Being
Paperback. Series: Wellcome. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: MFG; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232.
Sunday Times bestseller We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the womb; from the pulse of life at the wrist to the unique engineering of the foot. Drawing on his own experiences as a doctor and GP, he blends first-hand case studies with reflections on the way ... Read more
Sunday Times bestseller We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the womb; from the pulse of life at the wrist to the unique engineering of the foot. Drawing on his own experiences as a doctor and GP, he blends first-hand case studies with reflections on the way ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Wellcome
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781253427
SKU
9781781253427
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99-1
About Gavin Francis
Gavin Francis is a GP, and the author of True North and Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins, which won the Scottish Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and Costa Prize. He also writes for the Guardian, the Times, London Review of Books and Granta. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and ... Read more
Reviews for Adventures in Human Being
A sober and beautiful book about the landscape of the human body: thought-provoking and eloquent.
Hilary Mantel
Wonderful, subtle, unpretentious ... produces a kind of complicity between the author, the reader, and the subject
John Berger
Immensely engaging.
The Sunday Times
In Francis's beautifully written, exquisitely thoughtful, and completely captivating cartography, the body is ... Read more
Hilary Mantel
Wonderful, subtle, unpretentious ... produces a kind of complicity between the author, the reader, and the subject
John Berger
Immensely engaging.
The Sunday Times
In Francis's beautifully written, exquisitely thoughtful, and completely captivating cartography, the body is ... Read more