'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

'The book is threaded with moments of infectious joy . . . where the past and the land and the writer elide, travel writing properly endures' - COLIN THUBRON

'A deep empathy with the land and its history runs like a golden thread through every chapter' - SARA WHEELER

'Thank goodness for people like Gavin Francis who are prepared not only to visit our northerly neighbours, but write about them in a way that shows how much of their history is our history too' - ROGER COX

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