In Island Dreams, Gavin 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, community member and parent approaching middle age, Island Dreams riffs on the twinned poles of rest and motion, independence and attachment, never more relevant than in today's perennially connected world.

Illustrated with maps throughout, this is a celebration of human adventures in the world and within our minds.

Author : Gavin Francis

Edition : Canongate Books Ltd, Hardback, 256 pages

ISBN : 9781786898180

Published : 1st October 2020

Weight: 640g
Dimensions: 221 x 162 x 25mm

Demonstrating 50 different knots, some quite well known, and others more obscure, this is a wonderful book if you want to teach yourself a new skill, and have the knowledge ready to hand when you are out on your adventures.

Author : George Lewis

Edition : Hardback, 112 pages

ISBN : 9781861089977

"'It's over there,' John said as he pointed across the sea. I looked but all I could see was fog. 'There,' he persisted, 'you can just make out the outline of the castle.'"

From the tiny island that shaped the entire English language, to the island that terrified Dylan Thomas, there's more to Britain's tiny islands than you might think! Have your own tiny adventure by visiting any of the 60 remarkable little islands around Britain featured here. Although Britain boasts hundreds of tiny islands, Dixe Wills has selected just the very best of them for this book. Found around the coast, in lakes, in lochs and on rivers, these little worlds are waiting for you to discover them - whether you swim to them, walk to them at low tide, row to them, or catch a dinky little ferry.

Author : Dixe Wills

Edition : AA Publishing, Paperback, 320 pages

ISBN : 9780749573874

Published : 1st May 2013

Weight: 640g
Dimensions: 210 x 150 x 25mm

This alluring read includes 40 locations that are rife with disaster, chaos, paranormal activity, and death. The locations gathered here include the dangerous Strait of Messina, home of the mythical sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis; the coal town of Jharia, where the ground burns constantly with fire; Kasanka National Park in Zambia, where 8 million migrating bats darken the skies; the Nevada Triangle in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where hundreds of aircraft have disappeared; and Aokigahara Forest near Mount Fuji in Japan, the world's second most popular suicide location following the Golden Gate Bridge.

Author : Olivier Le Carrer

Edition : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc, Hardback, 144 pages

ISBN : 9781631910005

Published : 12th November 2015

Weight: 694g
Dimensions: 191 x 267 x 20mm