Heavy Light - A Journey through Madness, Mania, and Healing

Horatio Clare, whose adventures in the Black Mountains, the Gulf of Bothnia, the Ethiopian Highlands and the point in the Pacific Ocean furthest on earth from land, have made him one of the most brilliant travel writers of our day, takes us now to that most challenging country, severe mental illness. He does so with such wit, warmth, and humanity, that, better acquainted with its terrors, we may better face our own.