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  • Written by: Gavin Francis
  • Narrated by: Thomas Judd
  • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory.

In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the listener on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the womb; from the pulse of life at the wrist to the unique engineering of the foot.

Drawing on his own experiences as a doctor and GP, he blends firsthand case studies with reflections on the way the body has been imagined and portrayed over the millennia. If the body is a foreign country, then to practise medicine is to explore new territory: Francis leads the listener on an adventure through what it means to be human.

Both a user's guide to the body and a celebration of its elegance, this audiobook will transform the way you think about being alive, whether in sickness or in health.

Gavin Francis is an award-winning writer and doctor and a contributor to The Guardian, The New York Review of Books and London Review of Books.

©2015 Gavin Francis (P)2016 Audible, Ltd
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What the critics say

"A sober and beautiful book about the landscape of the human body: thought-provoking and eloquent." (Hilary Mantel)
"Wonderful, subtle, unpretentious...produces a kind of complicity between the author, the reader, and the subject." (John Berger)

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Super Book, Disappointing Naration

The writing and story telling is superb but the voice actor (or the director) was disappointing. He rushed the reading and did not pause in places where a pause would have driven a point home, given the respect to those who were dying, or where a pause would allow a reader to reflect and then shift thought to the next chapter. I usually like to listen to great books again but instead I rushed out to get a hard copy to re-read.

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