Wild
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.
‘Encyclopaedic, energetic, plunging, anarchic, intensely sexualised, often wildly written… The ambition is vast… Griffiths’ dazzling gift and fascination for language… this is a hungry, brave, all-consuming book, jumping with life, littered with perceptions and understandings, written by a woman who has engaged deeply with her subject and addressed it with warmth, affection and vigour’
The Spectator