A country called childhood
Subtitle: children and the exuberant world
By: Jay Griffiths
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9781619024298
Subjects: Cross-cultural studies; Children
Notes: "First published 2013 in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton, part of the Penguin Group, UK"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-398) and index.
Table of contents: title: Kith; title: The patron saint of childhood; title: Textures of tenderness; title: By the Mark, Twain!; title: Wolf milk in the ink; title: A ludic revolution (and a doodle); title: A clockwork child; title: The will of the wild; title: The fractal politics of childhood; title: Who owns a child?; title: The tribe of children; title: On the character fault of exuberance; title: Mirrors of the mind; title: The woods and the quest; title: The ship that goes as well on land as on water; title: The secret world of a child's soul; title: Eureka!; title: To affinity ... and beyond!