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I met cannibals infinitely kinder and more trustworthy than the murderous missionaries who evangelize them. 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.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild\u003c\/i\u003e describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous. It is by turns funny, touching and harrowing, and offers a poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and wildlands. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Easily \u003cb\u003ethe best travel book that I have read\u003c\/b\u003e in the last ten years' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wild is \u003cb\u003elike\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003enothing else I've ever read\u003c\/b\u003e: thrilling, troubling, frightening, exhilarating. This is \u003cb\u003ea truly necessary book\u003c\/b\u003e, and we are all lucky that the subject found a writer worthy of it' Philip Pullman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003ePassionate, rigorous\u003c\/b\u003e and utterly honest, Griffiths's remarkable book is written in a style \u003cb\u003eas wild and exciting as its subject\u003c\/b\u003e' Robert Macfarlane\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201478820018,"sku":"9780141006444","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141006444_63c13681-29e9-4f74-8092-c0b33913f89f.jpg?v=1786011229"},{"product_id":"9780241992722","title":"Why Rebel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'If bravery itself could write, it would write like she does' John Berger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy rebel?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of theft, has never been more important.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause we need a politics of kindness, but the very opposite is on the rise. Libertarian fascism, with its triumphal brutalism, its racism and misogyny - a politics that loathes the living world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause nature is not a hobby. It is the life on which we depend, as Indigenous societies have never forgotten.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly when it is dark enough can you see the stars, and they are lining up now to write rebellion across the skies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eWild\u003c\/i\u003e, this passionate, poetic manifesto for urgent rebellion is also a paean to the deep and extraordinary beauty of the natural world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Jay Griffiths \u003cb\u003ehelped redefine activism for a generation\u003c\/b\u003e, combining detailed research with a poet’s flair for language. 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