Savage Grace
Subtitle: A Journey in Wildness
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781619024656
Subjects: Nature, psychological aspects; Wilderness areas; Nature conservation; Indigenous peoples; Human ecology
Description: 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.