Island Dreams: Mapping an ObsessionGavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and great voyages from literature, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness. Comparing the life of freedom of thirty years of extraordinary travel from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the Galapagos to the Andaman Islands with a life of responsibility as a doctor,

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She has even made a promise to one of their sons

the father who walked out on them long ago has just walked right back in

never knowing which version of herself might surface tomorrow

while a third son had to be nursed back from a coma by Anne

Horrified by her recklessness

'Brit(ish)' is the story of how and why this came to be

And should it be saved

In this gripping investigation

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