The Bridge Between Worlds
A Brief History of Connection
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2025
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Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-83726-081-2 (ISBN)
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-83726-081-2 (ISBN)
From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a fascinating meditation on bridges around the world, exploring how these structures can improve human connection
In a world preoccupied by borders, bridges celebrate the possibility of connection
Dr Gavin Francis crosses bridges both actual and metaphorical on a journey through six continents, twenty countries and four decades of travel, exploring answers to questions of peace and conflict, connection and community.
From Rome's Ponte Sant'Angelo to Brooklyn, Victoria Falls to London, Singapore to Siberia, Francis's tour of bridges around the world demonstrates what the building of bridges has meant to our civilisation, how crossings can enrich our lives, and the price we pay when we tear them down.
In a world preoccupied by borders, bridges celebrate the possibility of connection
Dr Gavin Francis crosses bridges both actual and metaphorical on a journey through six continents, twenty countries and four decades of travel, exploring answers to questions of peace and conflict, connection and community.
From Rome's Ponte Sant'Angelo to Brooklyn, Victoria Falls to London, Singapore to Siberia, Francis's tour of bridges around the world demonstrates what the building of bridges has meant to our civilisation, how crossings can enrich our lives, and the price we pay when we tear them down.
Gavin Francis is an award-winning writer and GP. He is the author of ten non-fiction books, including Island Dreams which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2020; Adventures in Human Being which was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Saltire Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award; Empire Antarctica, which won Scottish Book of the Year in the SMIT Awards and was shortlisted for both the Ondaatje and Costa Prizes; and Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence, which was a Sunday Times bestseller. He has written for the Guardian, The Times, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. His work has been translated into twenty languages. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.09.2025 |
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| Einführung | Raja Shehadeh |
| Zusatzinfo | Black & white integrated images throughout |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 215 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte |
| Technik ► Bauwesen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83726-081-8 / 1837260818 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83726-081-2 / 9781837260812 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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