Synopsis
Jay Griffiths describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. A poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and wild lands, Wild is by turns funny, touching and harrowing. It is also a journey into that greatest of uncharted lands – wild mind – as Griffiths explores the words and meanings which shape our ideas and our experience of our own wildness. Part travelogue, part manifesto, this is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author.Reviews
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'This magnificent... beautiful book should reset your perceptions of the world.'
Geographical Magazine
'Remarkable... a geographical and emotional journey of extraordinary range... Nobody can fail to be enriched by this book's wealth of observation and description.'
Sunday Telegraph
'[Griffiths has] the intelligence of a naturalist and the luminous originality of a visitor from another planet... Wild is a profoundly important contribution, a raging oratorio to animism thankfully transcribed in a very readable notation.'
The Times
'Remarkable... She tears out a stupendous style... a book almost onomatopoeic in the use of language to match its view of the world.... a work of great sadness and great joy.'
Independent
'Jay Griffiths's Wild is part travelogue, part call to arms and wholly original... Wild is a profound and extraordinary piece of work.'
Observer
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Product details
Format : Hardback
ISBN: 9780241141526
Size : 153 x 234mm
Pages : 384
Published : 31 May 2007
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Other formats for Wild:
» Paperback : £8.99
Wild
An Elemental Journey
£20.00
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