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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...
- Sales Rank: #1291493 in Books
- Published on: 2008-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.80" h x 1.14" w x 5.08" l, .74 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 480 pages
From Publishers Weekly
In her second book (after A Sideways Look at Time) Griffiths narrates her seven-year exploration of the wildest places left on the globe—the Amazon rain forest, the Arctic and New Guinea, among others. The book is divided into five sections representing the "elements": earth, ice, water, fire and air. Her search for what remains wild is as much a linguistic and spiritual journey as it is a physical one, although she does take real risks, like drinking psychedelic ayahuasca infusions with shamans deep in the jungle. Griffiths's central thesis—that by developing and destroying our last wildernesses we are impoverishing our lives—is not an original one, but she brings fierce conviction and impressive scholarship to her work. Although Griffiths has great erudition and a real sensitivity to language, her ultraromantic perspective, in which civilization is always bad and nature always idyllic, lacks nuance. For someone so inspired by nature, Griffiths doesn't allow her observations to speak for themselves; instead, every event becomes another opportunity to condemn modern man. The lack of a narrative arc makes the book a collection of variations on a theme, and although Griffiths is a gifted writer, after 60 such essays, the mind starts to wander. (Jan.)
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Wild is like nothing else I've ever read: thrilling, troubling, frightening, exhilarating. Jay Griffiths' courage and energy are formidable, but so is her sheer intelligence and literary flair Philip Pullman Reality is such that both language and imagination have to exaggerate in order to confront it truly. Living with such exaggeration you need a very good head for heights and a lot of bravery. In this book Jay Griffiths has both. If bravery itself could write (by definition it can't), it would write, I believe, like she does John Berger
About the Author
Jay Griffiths is the author of Tristimania: A Diary of Manic Depression, Wild: An Elemental Journey; Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time; A Love Letter from a Stray Moon and Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape. She won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award for the best new non-fiction writer in the USA, and the Orion Book Award. She has also been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and a World Book Day award.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Flawed, but otherwise a good book
By Zach
I came across this book because of a recommendation given by Radiohead bassist Ed O’Brien on the band website Dead Air Space. Wild was on my Amazon wishlist for a while and I finally got around to reading it. I figured that it would be a good book to read this summer, as I will be spending a lot of my time travelling around without a really permanent place to stay.
This book is a biography of Jay Griffiths and her travels to some of the more remote and primitive places in the world. However, Wild is more than just a travelogue of interesting stories. Griffiths spends at least half of the book giving her manifesto about the truth of wilderness and how first world countries have destroyed the indigenous cultures through ignorance, economic exploitation and religious proselytizing. I really enjoyed the fact that this book was more than just a travelogue. By discussing some of the contemporary issues for the indigenous populations, Griffiths shows that she actually is interested in the people that she traveled to. Instead of just viewing them as some sort of peculiarity, she is vitally interested in their plight and struggles. I felt that my mind was opened to some of the issues that these indigenous people face, and was caught up in an interest to learn more about them.
Griffiths writing is evocative, but sometimes overdone. She does a good job explaining landscapes and the customs of the people. Her writing was specifically good when she was talking about her travels in the Arctic, and especially cringe worthy when she writes about her travels in the ocean. Wild is kind of a mixed bag when it comes to style. The whole book is overwritten with loaded language and odd metaphors. Sometimes it really works and you get a very clear picture of what Griffiths is describing. When her prose is at its A-game, Griffiths can write very emotionally and suck the reader in. However, other times her writing is so over the top that I could not wait to get out of the current section.
The good thing is that Griffiths weakness with prose does not diminish from the impact of the book too much. The stories of her travels are still interesting even if you sometimes have to ignore the problems with her prose. Even though I do not agree with Griffiths about some things (she is vehemently anti-Christian) I thought that she presented her arguments effectively, and made me reconsider some of my points of view.
I mentioned that the prose had some problems, but the biggest thing that stopped me from unconditionally loving this book was Griffiths overt self-righteousness. She spends the book idealizing the indigenous cultures that she came in contact with and discussing how the “civilized” societies of the world will never be as alive or free as the indigenous people. While that may be true, I felt like Griffiths purposely ignored the benefits of her society to paint the indigenous people in a kinder light. Without modern society she would not have had the ability to fly to these places, to have access to the wide range of quotes that she uses in her book or have access to the tampons that she mentions often as causing problems for her. Some of her more idealistic descriptions of the native people left me wondering why Griffiths did not just go live with them forever. Griffiths spends a lot of time trying to show that indigenous people have many of the answers to the world’s problems and live a better life (until the white Westerners come of course). If they are that great, should not Griffiths just pack everything up and go live in the wild instead of spending her time writing books?
This really is not unique to Griffiths. I think that in our attempt to find alternate ways of living, we often times over-idealize indigenous populations and forget how many advantages that we have as a modern society. I have no problem with Griffiths talking about how great the indigenous populations are, but when she starts being over critical of the modern civilization that she lives and works in, it just seems self-righteous and hypocritical.
That is my biggest problem with Wild. If you can get past that, it is a great book. I definitely enjoyed reading it and was enlightened about some of the Earth’s cultures. However, Griffiths nagging self-righteousness stops me from giving this book an unconditional good review.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Into the Wild In Search of Self
By Bugs
Jay Griffiths took a seven year wild tour of many lands to visit indigenous people in search of self and to immerse herself in their cultures for a hands-on education with people who have lived with nature for eons. The tragedy of the indigenous peoples clash with modern/materialistic/consumer societies is quite evident and there is a loud call for western societies to leave the natives and their lands to their un-molested selves.
Griffiths starts her 7 year journey in Peru to accompany an anthropologist on a visit to an Amazonian shaman where she imbibes on the powerful hallucinogen ayahuasca for a mind/body/spiritual awakening. This experience sets the stage for many more such wild encounters with indigenous tribes around the world and makes for an engrossing, wild read!
Griffiths' writing style is funny, mad, intense, saucy, but most of all, serious. After her travels, she comes away with: "My feelings now, personal and political, run to savage love, and savage rage". "It is a rage against the cruelties committed for the sake of this bland consumer culture. A rage against the effects of factory farming...". "A rage against out-of-town shopping centers, placed on the last little chinks of commons...". "A rage against the hollow men, the stuffed shirts who are the agents of the wasteland...". "There are two sides: the agents of waste and the lovers of the wild. Either for life or against it. And each of us has to choose."- Pages 7 to 8. Griffiths relates the dire situation in Indonesia where the West Papuans and their traditional lands are under siege by the repressive government and need help in maintaining their independence.
In a nutshell, "Wild" is a clear and tragic comparison of the natural, native, sustainable world and the "devouring", expansionist wasteland of the consumerist societies- a potent tale of discovery of the natural world, self and culture clashes!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
If you like this way of thinking then I can recommend the ...
By Gerran Tangye
An appropriately wild book. Not for everybody because it jumps. rambles and rages, but a real highlight of my reading this year. So many different, disparate but (tenuously) linked ideas and theories on everything from communications theory to biology to religion and more. If you like this way of thinking then I can recommend the communications theorist Bateson, who said that everything is communication and it is impossible NOT to communicate.
My head hurts, but in a good way.
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