Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone.
Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone.
Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
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As someone who is from the PNW, this was really fun to read, love the ending where she is in locations only 20 minutes from my house, really helped to paint the picture for me.
Really enjoyed this one! Strayed's writing is excellent and really kept me engrossed in her story and connected to her hardships and her triumphs. Glad I read it at this age, though I'd still recommend it to anyone.
I only finished this book because it was my "bathroom book." Easy to read in small doses, and not compelling enough to have to keep reading. She expresses herself very well, but I couldn't relate to her at all. What I really learned from reading it is that I don't want to waste time watching the movie.
I was about her age when my mother got cancer the first time (my mother's went into remission for about 10 years), and I also spent plenty of time going to hospitals and waiting on my mom during chemo bouts. Nope, never had the urge to shoot heroin, never cheated on my fiancé, and certainly wouldn't have saved money by shooting my horse in the head a few times instead of calling a vet when I had enough money to buy REI camping gear. Granted, I had a wonderful dad, which she didn't, but it was hard for me to relate to her. She was amazingly unprepared for her undertaking, and extremely self-absorbed.
I was about her age when my mother got cancer the first time (my mother's went into remission for about 10 years), and I also spent plenty of time going to hospitals and waiting on my mom during chemo bouts. Nope, never had the urge to shoot heroin, never cheated on my fiancé, and certainly wouldn't have saved money by shooting my horse in the head a few times instead of calling a vet when I had enough money to buy REI camping gear. Granted, I had a wonderful dad, which she didn't, but it was hard for me to relate to her. She was amazingly unprepared for her undertaking, and extremely self-absorbed.
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