
The Bridge Between Worlds
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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.
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Gavin Francis has written an exquisite book on a human structure we usually take for granted. This is a fascinating and delightful read -- ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH Informative, imaginative and hugely enjoyable. Who knew? A bridge can take you anywhere! -- SARA WHEELER It's rare and interesting to see bridges explored both as metaphors and as structures. The Bridge Between Worlds is a valuable reminder that the physical environment we build has immense social and cultural consequences -- SARAH MOSS Francis writes with energy, flair and empathy: The Bridge Between Worlds opens a marvellously rich seam of inquiry, striking many urgent and timely reverberations -- MARINA WARNER The Bridge Between Worlds is a delight - a memoir of restlessness. Across five decades, Gavin Francis takes us to lands known and unknown, making us wonder on the very links that bind us as beings -- JAMES CANTON Wonderful in the truest sense of the word. Thought-provoking and beautifully written. I'm full of admiration for his ability to seamlessly blend travelogue and memoir with a compassionate analysis of human endeavour and behaviour -- MARISA HAETZMAN Praise for Gavin Francis: Gavin Francis is a wonderful writer - thoughtful, engaging, immensely knowledgeable and supremely human -- BILL BRYSON Thought-provoking and elegant -- HILARY MANTEL Fluent, subtle, tough and often beautiful -- ROBERT MACFARLANE Wonderful, subtle, unpretentious . . . produces a kind of complicity between the author, the reader and the subject -- JOHN BERGERMore details
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