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As of 2008 half the world's population is living in towns and cities. The natural world is rarely seen, let alone experienced and enjoyed. For many of us the wild has become somewhere we never go.
Call of the Wild wants to help put us back in touch with nature.
Every month from May to November, Penguin will be publishing a new book about the wild places that we've forgotten, abandoned or ignore. Call of the Wild is your place to get hold of free extracts from each book as well as extra stuff you won't find anywhere else: podcast interviews, original articles and much more.
Come back to nature every month and see what new wild thing we've got for you.
'Utterly compelling, easily the best travel book that I have read in the last ten years'
Guardian
Award-winning writer Jay Griffith's Wild was seven years in the making. Now available in paperback, it tells how Griffith's sacrificed everything on trips to the ends of the Earth in search of a true understanding of wilderness. Follow her as she meets shamans in the Amazon, sings with freedom-fighters in West Pupua's highlands and anchors her boat to an iceberg where polars bears sleep.
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2008
Find out why Jay embarked on her seven-year odyssey in this extract from the opening pages.
Listen to an exclusive podcast of Jay talking about her journeys and writing Wild.
» Jay Griffiths and Wild
» Roger Deakin's and Wildwood
» Christopher Somerville and Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places
» Robert Preston and The Wild Trees
» Chris Yates and Out of the Blue & Tom Robinson and The Last Pool of Darkness
