Wild: An Elemental Journey Jay Griffiths Penguin Books Ltd

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_________________________\'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. _________________________\'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 Σελίδες: 480, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm