Wild: An Elemental Journey - Hardcover

Griffiths, Jay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241141524 ISBN 13: 9780241141526

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2007

Synopsis

Jay Griffiths describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. A poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and wild lands, Wild 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 our experience of our own wildness.

Part travelogue, part manifesto, this is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author.

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Review:

Praise for Jay Griffiths' Pip Pip:'This is smart, edgy work, from an original and exciting mind. Jay Griffiths' voice is a light beam in the fog of twenty-first-century debate' Barry Lopez 'Like the seminal socialist, feminist and ecological works, Pip Pip articulates what thousands have felt but no-one has been able to put into words . . . Cheeky, intelligent, always gripping, Pip Pip will be the opening salvo in a new battle over the human spirit' George Monbiot

'Original and intuitive . . . amusing and erudite, fascinating and spirited. Bravo!' TLS

About the Author:

Jay Griffiths is the author of Tristimania: A Diary of Manic Depression, Wild: An Elemental Journey; Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time; A Love Letter from a Stray Moon and Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape. She won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award for the best new non-fiction writer in the USA, and the Orion Book Award. She has also been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and a World Book Day award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0241141524
• ISBN 13: 9780241141526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384