ARGONAUT BOOKS

Gavin Francis offers a portrait of the northern fringes of Europe. His journey begins in the Shetland Isles, takes him to the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, then Svalbard and on to Lapland, following in the footsteps of the region's early pioneers and seeing how it adapts to the 21st century. Reviews 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 canonROBERT MACFARLANEThe book is threaded with moments of infectious joy . . . where the pa...Read More