Synopses & Reviews
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Wild, Jay Griffiths describes an extraordinary odyssey through wildernesses of earth, ice, water, and fire. A poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and the wild, the book is by turns passionate, political, funny, and harrowing. It is also a journey into that greatest of uncharted lands the wilderness of the mind and Griffiths beautifully explores the language and symbolism that shape our experience of our own wildness.
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.
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"Griffiths' love for words and her skill in using them...make this a fascinating journey." Kirkus Reviews
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"[Griffiths'] writing is beautiful, as lush and as dense with meaning as the places she visits." Oregonian
Synopsis
A poetic evaluation of the connection between human society and the natural world is a part-travelogue, symbolic tour of the earth's elements that explores "wildness" as an essential character of life. By the award-winning author of A Sideways Look at Time.
About the Author
Jay Griffiths is the author of A Sideways Look at Time, winner of the 2003 Barnes & Noble Discover Award for nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in Utne, the London Review of Books, The Guardian, The Observer, The Ecologist, and Wild Earth.