# Liturgies of the Wild

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- Book: [Liturgies of the Wild](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-shaw/liturgies-of-the-wild) ([Liturgies of the Wild.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-shaw/liturgies-of-the-wild.md))
- Authors: [Martin Shaw](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-shaw)
- Publisher: ebury_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 8 h 31 min
- Narrated by: Martin Shaw
- ISBN: 978-15-2998-356-2
- Published: 2026-02-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 8 h 31 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. From “one of the greatest storytellers we have” (Robert Bly), an urgent invitation to allow the oldest stories — and the Greatest Story — to reshape our own. There’s an old Irish belief that if you aren’t wrapped in a cloak of story you will be unprepared for what the world will hurl at you. You remain adolescent at just the moment a culture worth its salt requires you to become a real, grown, human being. In Liturgies of the Wild , acclaimed mythographer, storyteller and Christian thinker Martin Shaw argues that we live in a myth-impoverished age and that such poverty has left us vulnerable to stories that may not wish us well. Drawing on the “ancient technologies” of myths and initiatory rites, Shaw provides a road to wholeness, maturity and connection. He teaches us to read a myth the way it wants to be read; provides vivid retellings of tales powerful enough to carry you through life’s travails; and shows you how to gather and reshape your own thrown-away stories. Most vividly, he shares how these ancient technologies led him—unexpectedly—to Christ, “the True Myth,” by way of a thirty-year journey and a 101-night vigil in a Dartmoor forest. Combining scholarly erudition with nimble storytelling in the tradition of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, Liturgies of the Wild is a thrilling counsel of resistance and delight in the face of many modern monsters. © Martin Shaw 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026