Table of contents for Wild : an elemental journey / Jay Griffiths.

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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.