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Savage grace : a journey in wildness / Jay Griffiths.

Penn Museum Library GF50 .G75 2015
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Griffiths, Jay, author.
Contributor:
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
Standardized Title:
Wild
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ethnoecology.
Human ecology--Psychological aspects.
Human ecology.
Nature--Psychological aspects.
Nature.
Physical Description:
392 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2015]
Summary:
Jay Griffiths is a tour guide for anyone who has ever wished to commune with the side of our human psyche that remains in touch with the wild. Equally at home among the "sea gypsy" Bajo people who live off the coast of Thailand and forage their food from the ocean floor, drinking the psychedelic ayahuasca plant with Amazonian shamans, or joining an Inuit whale hunt at the northern tip of Canada, Griffiths takes readers on an adventure both charted and un-chartable. She divides her meditations on these travels into sections named after the ancient elemental properties of the universe: Earth, Air.
Notes:
"First published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton in 2007"--Verso of title page.
Revision of: Griffiths, Jay. Wild : an elemental journey.
Winner of the Orion Book Award.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-384) and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
ISBN:
1619024659
9781619024656
OCLC:
883651180
Publisher Number:
99962243427

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