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by Jay Griffiths (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd (31 May 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0241141524
  • ISBN-13: 978-0241141526
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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The Observer, 20 May, 2007
A vital, unique and uncategorisable celebration of the spirit of
life itself, Wild is a profound and extraordinary piece of work

Bill McKibben, The Ecologist, May, 2007
A major book by a major writer ... she writes like four kinds of
gorgeous ... Wild is the book that shows how it should be done.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Journeys to the wild corners of the world and the soul., 24 Jun 2007
By D. Paynter (Woking, Surrey) - See all my reviews
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Not many of us will visit the places and talk to the people that Jay Griffiths has, and perhaps that's just as well. We accompany her on a seven year journey as she shows us how much damage has been done to the wild corners and cultures of our planet by the resource-hungry and the religious zealots of the 'civilized' world. From the chill of the Arctic, to the heat of the Australian outback, using language that takes you right to the heart of the wild and deep into the recesses of her own soul, she shows us the incredible beauty and savagery of the planet. Her descriptions are as extraordinarily vivid as the landscapes through which she travels. Poetic, alliterative, coarse, rhythmic, her words dance across the page like a verbal ballet. We are even given the etymology of some of her choices, to enrich her meaning. The last section of the book contains the most moving diary of grief I have ever read. This is an odyssey to delight and challenge both the mind and the soul. Both her books are etched in my memory.
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46 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Book of the year, 13 Mar 2007
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Jay has produced one of the best books I have ever read - and I have read a lot. She combines a joyful playfulness of language with a passionate love of the natural world. She has created a manifesto for a new world - but she has done it so cleverly that you could mistake this book for an adventure story. There is great daring and sacrifice as she explores the Wild-est parts of the world - shamanic drug-induced hallucinations in the Amazon, shredded feet in West Papua and erotic loneliness in the heart of Australia make for a great romp. But they sugar a very powerful medicine that will seep into your bones - we have to change our view of the world, we have to accept that there is great value in the Wild. My only criticism of the book is that it ends.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Overwritten - too much, 7 Aug 2008
This review is from: Wild: An Elemental Journey (Paperback)
I see why people are seduced by this, but a hundred pages or so in, I fled back to Hemingway. A hundred pages of images like 'clouds mulled on the horizon'. A hundred pages of drama and ecstacy, with many proliferating adjectives, and whole flights of those alienated verbs Macfarlane likes too. It was like a Plath poem written out in long lines, but those poems need the space around them to make thier impact. I know the author is trying to say something about nature, and about its wildness, but the extreme expressivity loses impact when repeated and repeated over and over and over. I felt bludgeoned. It felt immature and starstruck, like a girl's letter to a rock star - touching, but not wise. (And the stuff about menstruation is total rubbish.) All the same, a little pruning (yes, I know) would have made a very good book of this. The wild doesn't have to be a screaming harpy. It can be gentle, too.
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