Wild

Wild

by Jay Griffiths
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 31/05/2007

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WINNER OF THE ORION BOOK AWARD


Part travelogue, part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life, Wild is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author


'Undefinable, untameable, profound and extraordinary' Observer

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'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 found a paradox of wildness in the glinting softness of its charisma, for what is savage is in the deepest sense gentle and what is wild is kind. In the end - a strangely sweet result - I came back to a wild home.'


Wild describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous. It is by turns funny, touching and harrowing, and offers a poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and wildlands.

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'Easily the best travel book that I have read in the last ten years' Guardian


'Wild is like nothing else I've ever read: thrilling, troubling, frightening, exhilarating. This is a truly necessary book, and we are all lucky that the subject found a writer worthy of it' Philip Pullman


'Passionate, rigorous and utterly honest, Griffiths's remarkable book is written in a style as wild and exciting as its subject' Robert Macfarlane

ISBN:
9780141900612
9780141900612
Category:
Travel writing
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
31-05-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd

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