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Wild: An Elemental Journey by Jay Griffiths (Paperback, 2008)

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By Jay Griffiths. The paperback edition of Griffiths' chronicle of her 7 year odyssey in search of the will of the wild, this is also a manifesto for the essential wildness of the human spirit. From songlines and shamanism, to cannibals and deserts, polar bears and passion, it's a future classic of travel and nature writing.

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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 parts 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 evangelise them. I anchored a boat to an iceberg where polar bears slept; ate witchetty grubs and visited sea gypsies. 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 ...