Wild
An Elemental Journey
$32.51
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
4 August 2008
Summary
‘Easily the best, most rewarding travel book that I have read in the last decade’ Guardian
I took seven years over this work, spent all I had, my time, money and energy. Part of the journey was a green riot and part a deathly bleakness. I got ill, I got well. I went to the freedom fighters of West Papua and sang my head off in their highlands. I met cannibals infinitely kinder and more trustworthy than the murderous missionaries who evangelize them. I anchored a boat to an iceberg whe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141006444 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141006447 |
| Author: | Jay Griffiths |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 4 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 328g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 32mm |
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Critics Review
Wild is like nothing else I’ve ever read: thrilling, troubling, frightening, exhilarating. Jay Griffiths’ courage and energy are formidable, but so is her sheer intelligence and literary flair
Wild is like nothing else I’ve ever read: thrilling, troubling, frightening, exhilarating. Jay Griffiths’ courage and energy are formidable, but so is her sheer intelligence and literary flair – Phillip Pullman
Reality is such that both language and imagination have to exaggerate in order to confront it truly. Living with such exaggeration you need a very good head for heights and a lot of bravery. In this book Jay Griffiths has both. If bravery itself could write (by definition it can’t), it would write, I believe, like she does – John Berger
A vivifying read in its entirety … both an act of revolt (against the erasure of the wild, against the domestication of the soul) and an act of reverence (for the irrepressible in nature, for landscape as a form of knowledge, for life on Earth, as improbable and staggering as love.) … Reclaiming our wildness emerges as an act of courage and resistance amid the conspicuous consumption by which late-stage capitalism drugs us into mistaking having for being … What Griffiths offers is a wakeup call from this near-living, a spell against apathy, against our self-expatriation from our own nature – Maria Popova * The Marginalian *
About The Author
Jay Griffiths
Jay Griffiths is the author of many books, including:
- Wild: An Elemental Journey
- Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape
- Tristimania
- Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time
She won the Discover award for the best first-time author in the USA, the inaugural Orion award, and the Hay Festival International Fellowship. She has been commissioned to write for Radiohead and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her work has received widespread accolades from figures such as Gary Snyder, Barry Lopez, Don Paterson, John Berger, Philip Pullman, KT Tunstall, and Nikolai Fraiture.
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