{"product_id":"wild-an-elemental-journey-by-jay-griffiths-9780141006444","title":"Wild : An Elemental Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Orion Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart travelogue, part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life, Wild is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Undefinable, untameable, profound and extraordinary.\" Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A masterpiece.\" Maria Popova\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWild 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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Easily the best travel book that I have read in the last ten years.\" Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Wild is like nothing else I've ever read: thrilling, troubling, frightening, exhilarating. This is a truly necessary book, and we are all lucky that the subject found a writer worthy of it.\" Philip Pullman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Passionate, rigorous and utterly honest, Griffiths's remarkable book is written in a style as wild and exciting as its subject.\" Robert Macfarlane\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jay Griffiths","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57631222694261,"sku":"9780141006444","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9780141006444.jpg?v=1791297391","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/wild-an-elemental-journey-by-jay-griffiths-9780141006444","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}