Wild

From Lost to Found on the Pacific Trail A Borzoi Book

by Cheryl Strayed

Hardcover, 315 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2012 by Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:: 978-0-307-59273-6
OCLC Number:: 745979737

(86 reviews)

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. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything when her mother died young of cancer. Her family scattered in their grief, her marriage was soon destroyed, and slowly her life spun out of control. Four years after her mother's death, with nothing more to lose, Strayed made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker--indeed, she'd never gone backpacking before her first night on the trail. Her trek was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.” But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. …

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Sean Gursky reviewed Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Trail by Cheryl Strayed (A Borzoi Book)

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4 stars

"Wild" was a fantastic read. I loved the isolation, monotony and tedium that Cheryl experienced on the trail. Reading how the mind wanders and the expectation that you will be looking at beautiful vistas the entire time but all you you see are your two feet and the next section of trail ahead of you are similar to experiences I have had. Her story on the PCT really got me excited about grabbing a bag and torturing myself on a trip like hers.

Cheryl wasn't a saint in her pre-PCT life but her time on the trail changed her and her outlook on life and I am a little envious of her 'spirit quest'.