Jay Griffiths: Wild
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- Kategoria: luonnontieteet, alakategoria: maantiede & matkailu
- Materiaali: Isokokoinen pokkari
- Kustantaja: Penguin Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780141006444
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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 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…