Wild Av Jay Griffiths

<p><b>WINNER OF THE ORION BOOK AWARD </b><br><br><b>Part travelogue, part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life, <i>Wild</i> is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author</b><br><br>''Undefinable, untameable, profound and extraordinary'' <b><i>Observer</i></b><br>_________________________<br><br><i>''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.''</i><br><br><b><i>Wild</i> describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dange