Wild
€10.25
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780141006444 |
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| Authors | Jay Griffiths |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.334 |
| Publishing Date | 01/05/2008 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €9.67 |
| Tax | €0.58 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €10.25 |
| Availability | 17 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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
''A masterpiece'' Maria Popova
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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 likenothing 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