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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Readers say *Wild* is a powerful, poetic memoir of grief, resilience, and self-discovery during Cheryl Strayed’s challenging first-ever 1,100-mile Pac...
What can I say about this book that everybody hasn't already said? I don't understand the negativity towards the book or the author. This young woman not only lost her mother, but then her stepfather disappeared -- this after being abandoned long before then by her biological father. She was experiencing grief and trauma, and she was very honest about the shitty way she handled it, and this journey was her way of getting herself clean, of "finding herself." We are all on our own journey. It's reading stories like this that help us understand a different perspective. Or not, apparently.
(Don't even get me started on comparisons to Eat, Pray, Love....)
(Don't even get me started on comparisons to Eat, Pray, Love....)
A journey of discovery
Cheryl made the journey of a lifetime. I can't even imagine enduring the pain of an 1100 mile backpacking trip. I loved the descriptions of scenery I will never see. Nd the stories of her encounters with other hikers. The first part of the story is tough to read. The loss of her mother sent her into a spiral that only the trail helped her survive it.
Cheryl made the journey of a lifetime. I can't even imagine enduring the pain of an 1100 mile backpacking trip. I loved the descriptions of scenery I will never see. Nd the stories of her encounters with other hikers. The first part of the story is tough to read. The loss of her mother sent her into a spiral that only the trail helped her survive it.
I enjoyed listening to this book. It was really great and to see Cheryl overcome everything by taking this hike was amazing. To know that this was her very first hike ever and she made it is very inspiring. I will admit the part where they have to put down their Mom's horse was a bit hard to get through but, I know that this was part of the story. It was like she was losing her mom again because her mother was so close to that horse. Really good read.
I was surprised that this book held my interest. Good book, but mentally challenging. I think when she took off hiking without ever been any trails, gave me pause. As she traveled along it became more and more imperative that she continued the hike. Thought the ending was rushed. Meets a man, marries him, has a family with him, then ‘THE END’
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