The Bridge Between Worlds

A Brief History of Connection

By: Gavin Francis

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Hardcover | 3 December 2024

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288 Pages

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22.0 x 15.9 x 3

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From the Sunday Times bestselling authorcomes a fascinating meditation on bridges around the world, exploring how these structures can improve human connection

In a world increasingly preoccupied by borders, bridges celebrate the possibility of connection, allowing the flow of goods, people and ideas. Bridges are among our grandest physical structures with the power of transforming lives and economies, but we also stand (or fall) upon the simple arch of bones in our feet. Text is a bridge between writer and reader, and conversation builds bridges of understanding between minds.

Dr Gavin Francis has spent his life fascinated by the power of bridges to improve human connection. In The Bridge Between Worlds he examines bridges both actual and metaphorical, on a journey through more than twenty countries, across four decades of travel.

From Rome's Ponte Sant'Angelo to Brooklyn, Victoria Falls to London, Singapore to Siberia, this thought-provoking book reflects on connections between nations and between individuals. Francis 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.

Industry Reviews

'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 BERGER

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