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Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain from the Bestselling author of Storyland
Amy Jeffs
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'Inspiring' Waterstones
'Thrilling' Guardian
'Marries words and images to create a special echo of this country's rich past' The Times
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, 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 these are stories that largely represent figures whose voices are not generally heard in the corpus of medieval literature: women, outcasts, animals.
Illustrated with original wood engravings, evoking an atmospheric world of whales, wolves, caves, cuckoos and reeds, Wild: Tales From Early Medieval Britain will leave readers with a feeling of 'westendream': delight in the wilderness.
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Praise for Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain from the Bestselling author of Storyland
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A beautiful retelling of British myths and exquisitely illustrated too.This gorgeous book should live on the bookshelves in every house that cares about "the idea of Britain, what is was and where it came from."
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