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Wild: An Elemental Journey

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It is also an intellectual travel, a journey into wild mind, as Griffiths explores the words and meanings which shape people's ideas and experience of wildness, the wildness of the human spirit. The book includes the description of drinking
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wrote: "Jay Griffiths is a five-star, card-carrying member of the hellfire club... a strange, utterly compelling book, Wild is easily the best, most rewarding travel book that I have read in the last decade." In
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describes a seven-year odyssey to wildernesses representing the five traditional elements of earth, ice, water, air and fire, the connection between human society and wild lands. Earth is the
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was praised widely in major newspapers; it was described as "part travelogue, part call to arms and wholly original... A vital, unique and uncategorisable celebration of the spirit of life".
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on the band's blog, stating that it was "an astonishing piece of writing " and that "it was exactly what I needed to read".
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wrote of its "kaleidoscopic narrative" and "exhilarating prose". In the
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issued a paperback version in 2008. It was published in Korean in 2011.
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called it "remarkable" and "stupendous" while Mark Cocker of
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During an interview about the experiences she described in
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in the United States, where the book has been retitled
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is a British writer. She read English Literature at
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Index


Jay Griffiths
Travel literature
Tarcher
ISBN
978-1585424030
book about travel
wildernesses
Jay Griffiths
Jay Griffiths
Oxford University
London Review of Books
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 4
World Service
The Guardian
The Ecologist
Orion
Aeon
Tristimania
Tarcher
Hamish Hamilton
Penguin Books
Amazon rainforest
Canadian Arctic
Bajo
Sulawesi
Australian outback
West Papua
montane forests

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