Kith by Jay Griffiths

Kith by Jay Griffiths

Seeks to discover why we deny our children the freedoms of space, time and the natural world. Visiting communities as far apart as West Papua and the Arctic, as well as the UK, and delving into history, philosophy, language and literature, this book explores how children's affinity for nature is an essential and universal element of childhood.

Griffiths' understanding of how it feels to be a child is extraordinary, and her writing is as vivid as poetry * Mail on Sunday *
I didn't just read this book; I revelled in itPlayful and polemical, emotional and imaginative. As vital as play itself * Independent *
A subterranean book. We excavate it to refind the secrets of childhood, our own, and many other childhoods in times and places far from ours -- John Berger
Kith could have been written by no-one but Jay Griffiths. It is ablaze with her love of the physical world and her passionate moral sense that goodness and a true relation with nature are intimately connected. She has the same visionary understanding of childhood that we find in Blake and Wordsworth, and John Clare would have read her with delight. Her work isn't just good -- it's necessary -- Philip Pullman

Jay Griffiths writes with such richness and mischief about the one thing that could truly save the world: its children

-- K. T. Tunstall
An impassioned, visionary plea to restore to our children the spirit of adventure, freedom and closeness to nature that is their birthright. We must hear it and act on it before it is too late -- Iain McGilchrist
Scintillating, passionate, supremely honest. Adults and children need more books like this * Literary Review *
Jay Griffiths is one of our most poetic and passionate critics of the ways of civilisation. Provocative, illuminating and shamelessly romantic -- Theodore Zeldin

Jay Griffiths is the author of many books, such as Wild: An Elemental Journey, Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape, Tristimania and Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time. She won the Discover award for the best first-time author in the USA; the inaugural Orion award and the Hay Festival International Fellowship. She has been commissioned to write for Radiohead and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her work has received widespread accolades, including from Gary Snyder, Barry Lopez, Don Paterson, John Berger, Philip Pullman, KT Tunstall and Nikolai Fraiture.

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ISBN 13	9780141039459
ISBN 10	0141039450
Title	Kith
Author	Jay Griffiths
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2014-07-03
Number of pages	432
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.