Wild

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Books
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book_author_name: 
Amy Jeffs
book_type: 
Hardback
publisher: 
Quercus Publishing
published_date: 
13/10/2022
isbn: 
9781529424232
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Books > Politics, Society & Education > Society & culture > Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge > Folklore, myths & legends
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Amy Jeffs|Hardback|Quercus Publishing|13/10/2022
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9781529424232
Book Description: 
Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on their backs, sleet, bitter winds, bleak, impenetrable marshes, howling wolves, forests, the unceasing cries of birds and the death grip of subterranean vaults that have never seen the sun: these are wild landscapes of a world almost familiar. In Wild, Amy Jeffs journeys - on foot and through medieval texts - from landscapes of desolation to hope, offering the reader an insight into a world at once distant and profoundly close to home. The seven chapters, entitled Earth, Fen, Forest, Beast, Ocean, Catastrophe, Paradise, open with fiction and close with reflection. They blend reflections of travels through fen, forest and cave, with retelling of medieval texts that offer rich depictions of the natural world, from the Old English elegies, the Welsh Englynion, the Norse poetic Edda - stories that largely represent figures whose voices are not generally heard in the corpus of medieval literature: women, outcasts, animals. Illustrated with original wood engravings, evoking an atmospheric world of whales, wolves, caves, cuckoos and reeds, Wild will leave readers feeling 'westendream': delight in the wilderness.

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