Wild : tales from early medieval Britain /
Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on their backs, sleet, bitter winds, bleak, impenetrable marshes, howling wolves, forests, the unceasing cries of birds and the death grip of subterranean vaults that have never seen the sun. These are...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Kansas City, Missouri :
Andrews McMeel Publishing,
[2024].
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| Summary: | Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on their backs, sleet, bitter winds, bleak, impenetrable marshes, howling wolves, forests, the unceasing cries of birds and the death grip of subterranean vaults that have never seen the sun. These are wild landscapes of a world almost familiar. In Wild, Amy Jeffs journeys, on foot and through medieval texts, from landscapes of desolation to hope, offering the reader an insight into a world at once distant and profoundly close to home. The seven chapters, entitled Earth, Ocean, Forest, Beast, Fen, Catastrophe and Paradise, open with fiction and close with reflection. They blend reflections of travels through fen, forest and cave, with retelling of medieval texts that offer rich depictions of the natural world. From the Old English elegies to the englynion and immrama of the Celtic world, stories that largely represent figures whose voices are not generally heard in the corpus of medieval literature, those of women, outcasts and animals. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781524886363 152488636X |