True North

Gavin Francis is an accomplished teller of traveller's tales. His nuanced, often witty, observations of the people and places he encounters mean True North really gets under the skin of Europe's magical north ~Sunday Herald

A great web of interconnecting sagas ~The Scotsman

A deep empathy with the land and its history runs like a golden thread through every chapter of True North. ~Sara Wheeler, The Spectator

True North is a wonder-voyage - an immrama - out into the landscape of the northern regions, but also into the mindscape of those many travellers who have been drawn irresistibly northwards over the millennia. Fluent, subtle, tough and often beautiful, True North stands alongside Peter Davidson's The Idea of North and Joanna Kavenna's The Ice Museum as a significant recent addition to the Arctic canon ~Robert Macfarlane