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Wild – An Elemental Journey

Wild – An Elemental Journey by Jay Griffiths describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. During seven years of exploration of threatened wildernesses, Griffiths also discovers and relishes in wildness itself. Over five elemental sections – Earth, Ice, Water, Fire and Air, the author travels the globe in an epic trek in which she invests everything she has. She travels to the Peruvian Amazon, the Canadian Arctic, the Indonesian Ocean, the Australian bush and the mountains of West Papua.A poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and wild lands, ‘œWild” is by turns funny, touching and harrowing. It is also a journey into that greatest of uncharted lands – wild mind – as Griffiths explores the words and meanings which shape our ideas and experiences of our own wildness.Passionate, political and provocative, this book is part travelogue and part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life.’œI 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 got to the point of collapse. I got the giggles. I met cannibals infinitely kinder and more trustworthy than the murderous missionaries who evangelise them. I went to places which are about the worst in the world to have your period. I wrote notes by the light of a firefly; anchored a boat to an iceberg where polar bears slept; ate witchetty grubs and visited sea gypsies. 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.” Jay Griffiths.

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