Analysis of Jack Turner's The Abstract Wild

ultimately defends the wild in all of its forms. He opens the novel with a narrative story about a

time when he explored the Maze in Utah and stumbled across ancient pictographs. Turner tells

this story to describe what a truly wild and unmediated experience is. The ideas of the aura,

magic, and wildness that places contain is introduced in this story. Turner had a spiritual

connection with the pictographs because of the power, beauty, and awe that they created within

him upon their first mysterious contact. Turner ruined this unmediated experience by taking

photographs of the pictographs and talking about them to several people. His second visit to the

pictographs was extremely different- he had removed the wild connection with the ancient mural

and himself by publicizing and talking about them. This is Turner’s main point within the first

chapter. He believes that when we take a wild place and photograph it, talk about it, advertise it,

make maps of it, and place it in a national park that we ruin the magic, the aura, and the wildness

of that place. Nature magazines, photographs, and films all contribute to the removal of o

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Approximate Word count = 3384
Approximate Pages = 14 (250 words per page double spaced)