{"product_id":"wild-an-elemental-journey-paperback","title":"Wild: An Elemental Journey (Paperback)","description":"\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 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'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild\u003c\/i\u003e describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. It is by turns funny, touching and harrowing, and offers a poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and wild lands. \u003ci\u003eWild\u003c\/i\u003e won the inaugural Orion Book Award for 2007 and was shortlisted for the Orwell prize and for the World Book Day award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jay Griffiths","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43660933333170,"sku":"9780141006444","price":345.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/54589_611e4458d67da4.22626170_9780141006444.jpg?v=1707211503","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/wild-an-elemental-journey-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}