This is a Festschrift for Professor C. A. Meier on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Festschriften usually lack cohesion, as the contributors tend to emphasise different facets of the honoured scholar's work. However, all the essays in this little volume concentrate on one theme, that of wilderness. Yet each contribution is unique in its style and approach; they are also located within different cultural traditions—African, Japanese, Australian, American and European. As a whole, the