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Contents WILD EARTH Absolute Truancy 1 Drinking Hemlock and Stars 3 Telluric Thought 14 On the R¿o Mara¿¿n 17 Wild Language 21 Green Songlines 28 "If You Go to the River Mouth . . ." 33 Up, Heathens All 35 Self-Willed Land 39 Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered 43 The Genius of the Forests 45 Nothing Unthrust 48 "Not Enough Cunt. That's the Problem with Genesis." 52 A Gentle Rapport 58 The Ax-Man Cometh 62 Caging the Land 75 The Wasteland 79 The Jaguar's Apprentice 81 Feral Song 86 WILD ICE Ice Music 89 Sight and Ice Light 91 Nightwinter, Daysummer and the Twilight of Fall 94 The Poles of Meaning 96 The Whale Hunt 97 On Ice 105 Survival 110 Lost, Unlost and Temporarily Misplaced 114 The People Who Change Nature 116 "The Nothingness. The Nothingness." 118 Arktik¿s-The Country of the Great Bear 121 The Kind Wild 124 We Are Wild 126 Polar Psyche 128 "Fear Not-There Is a Briton at Thy Door!" 130 Soloists in the Ice 137 Vagabond Fungi 139 Virgin 140 Caging Wild Time 142 Stir- Crazy 143 Land as Medicine 150 A Melting World 153 WILD WATER Sea Gypsies 157 A Marine Rattlebag 159 Underwater Mind 169 A Soundscape the Size of the World 172 And Death Also Rises 178 Mothersea 180 A Hazard to Shipping 183 The Lower Depths 185 Maps 188 Paradiso Giocoso 197 Utopia 198 Caligula to the Seas 201 WILD FIRE Out Bush 205 A Compass in the Head 210 Songlines 211 "Land Our Heart. Soul. Country." 213 Art, the Well of the Desert 217 Belowness 218 "A Hideous Blank" 220 Naming and Taming 221 White Man's Rubbish 222 Land Rights 225 Terra Nullius 225 Headhunters 227 "A Man Can Only Be Free in the Desert" 229 The Law of the Wild 231 Desert Days 233 "My Ey Dazels My Tong Burn" 241 A Sand Algebra 243 Eternity in the Sands 244 The Newspapers of the Desert 245 Mirages 247 A Desert Caprice: Phallus to the Fore 248 The Desert Fathers 250 The Devil in the Desert 251 Purity and the Scapescape 253 On Fire 255 Nomads All 257 WILD AIR On the Bare Mountain 267 A Ruck in the Map 271 Coinspiring Air 281 Songlines of the Hills 283 Cannibals and Quarrels 285 Wild Mountain Lust 291 Tell Me About the Savages 294 Fire on the Mountain 300 Why Climb? 302 Merdeka. Eleutheria. Saoirse . . . Libertate. Freedom. 303 Rebel Angels 308 Cry Freedom! 312 Paradise Found 314 The Anarchic Will 316 A Nod to the Gods 319 "No Tobacco, No Hallelujah" 329 Cliffs of Fall 333 WILD MIND The Wasteland of Tragedy 341 The Wildness of Comedy 348 Acknowledgments 361 Bibliography 363 Index 377
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Indigenous peoples -- Ecology.
Human ecology -- Psychological aspects.
Nature -- Psychological aspects.