The True North: Travels in Arctic Europe (2008) by Gavin Francis details the author's experiences travelling in Arctic Europe from Unst (the northernmost of the inhabited British Isles), while His Adventures in Human Being (2015) won the Saltire Society Literary Award for non-fiction.
Francis's experiences eventually formed the basis for his second book, Empire Antarctica (2012); his first book, True North: Travels in Arctic Europe (2008), detailed his experiences travelling in Arctic Europe from Unst to Svalbard. It is the northernmost of the inhabited British Isles and is the third-largest island in Shetland after the Mainland and Yell. His Adventures in Human Being (2015) won the Saltire Society Literary Award for non-fiction and was a British Medical Association (BMA) book of the year. 
