{"product_id":"jay-griffiths-wild-2008-paperback","title":"Jay Griffiths: Wild [2008] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE ORION BOOK AWARD \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart travelogue, part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life, \u003ci\u003eWild\u003c\/i\u003e is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Undefinable, untameable, profound and extraordinary' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eA masterpiece'\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Popova\u003cbr\u003e_________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'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.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Easily \u003cb\u003ethe best travel book that I have read\u003c\/b\u003e in the last ten years' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wild is \u003cb\u003elike\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003enothing else I've ever read\u003c\/b\u003e: thrilling, troubling, frightening, exhilarating. This is \u003cb\u003ea truly necessary book\u003c\/b\u003e, and we are all lucky that the subject found a writer worthy of it' Philip Pullman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003ePassionate, rigorous\u003c\/b\u003e and utterly honest, Griffiths's remarkable book is written in a style \u003cb\u003eas wild and exciting as its subject\u003c\/b\u003e' Robert Macfarlane\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffiths, Jay","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52916869923155,"sku":"9780141006444","price":14.27,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":52916869890387,"sku":"XV80141006444","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/griffiths-jay-jay-griffiths-wild-2008-paperback-1218827876.jpg?v=1769815751","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/jay-griffiths-wild-2008-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}