Adventures in Human Being (eBook)

Wonderful, subtle, unpretentious ... produces a kind of complicity between the author, the reader, and the subject

In Francis's beautifully written, exquisitely thoughtful, and completely captivating cartography, the body is a superbly-lit museum filled with treasures, and Dr. Francis the perfect guide who deftly weaves together science and story to reveal the wondrous flesh-and-blood underpinnings of our daily lives. It's a spellbinding view.

A beautifully written guide to our wonders and weaknesses that combines the precision of science with a profound insight into the human condition.

I read this book transfixed... The style is crisp and fast and the human tales irresistible. I was left with many nuggets.

A sober and beautiful book about the landscape of the human body: thought-provoking and eloquent.

A quietly radical, three-dimensional view of issues such as reproduction, birth, death and disability that has the power, at times, to make you stop mid-sentence and carefully reassess some of your most basic assumptions... its greatest strength is its profound yet understated compassion.

Grand, eloquent stuff, occasionally humorous, frequently moving and invariably informative... The end result is a thoroughly entertaining, provocative work.

The joy of Mr Francis's work lies in the fact that although he delights in the body's physical reality, he takes care not to reduce human experience to that alone.

Immensely engaging.

So enthralling and so well written that it should win its own clutch of prizes... immensely engaging and often unexpected. His achievement here is to guide readers through his special landscape with such eloquence and subtlety.