Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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#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. 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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Bought this somewhat ten years ago from audible, and wanted to finish it. Finally fell asleep on the last hour to just jerk awake when she finishes her trail.
Really nice!
This book made me want to hike and adventure more. I thought this book was something every young woman should read... A rite if passage of being independent of facing your demons and insecurities.
This book made me want to hike and adventure more. I thought this book was something every young woman should read... A rite if passage of being independent of facing your demons and insecurities.
I hope one day I can be brave and enjoy the pleasure of doing something really really challenging, but also extremely rewarding. I want to find myself in nature- possibly on the PCT- too someday (which I fear may never actually happen- because “someday” is ambiguous as hell). Cheryl went in head first… entirely unprepared. She faced many difficult and life-threatening situations, but all along the way I felt like I was walking beside her and tha...read more
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