Adventures in Human Being

Gavin Francis Press Reviews

'A beautiful, profound and highly readable account of a remarkable personal adventure. Francis's pacing is deft, his prose vivid, his research worn lightly. Empire Antarctica is surely destined to become a standard, not so much of travel as of staying very still.' Daily Telegraph

'Empire Antarctica is the embodiment of everything I admire in travel writing -- a great journey, intense isolation, wide reading, vivid writing, scientific research, and something in the nature of an old-fashioned ordeal. That Gavin Francis is a medical doctor, with an important role to play in the darkness and cold at the ends of the earth, is a bonus. I loved this book.' -- Paul Theroux

'Wonderful, subtle, unpretentious ... produces a kind of complicity between the author, the reader, and the subject'
John Berger