Wild: An Elemental Journey

'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.'

Part 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. It 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 wild-lands.

'Easily the best travel book that I have read in the last ten years' Guardian

'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

'Passionate, rigorous and utterly honest, Griffiths's remarkable book is written in a style as wild and exciting as its subject' Robert Macfarlane

'Undefinable, untameable, profound and extraordinary' Observer

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