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.

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 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 children. WELLCOME COLLECTION Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death. Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive, funding over 14,000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries. wellcomecollection.org

Rezensionen

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