By the bestselling author of Storyland. 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, Ocean, Forest, Beast, Fen,
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 to the englynion and
immrama of the Celtic world - 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: Tales From Early Medieval
Britain will leave readers feeling 'westendream': delight in the
wilderness.
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