Wild : From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

English

ISBN: 0307592731

EAN: 9780307592736

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Literary/Travel / United States / West / Pacific (Ak, Ca, Hi, Or, Wa)/Sports & Recreation / Hiking/

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 03/15/2012

Synopsis: Oprahs Book Club 2.0 selection. 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 mothers 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: 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, and the trail 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. Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wildvividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Awards: Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award – null 

Wild : From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.3 inches

Width: 6.54 inches

Length: 9.55 inches

Weight: 21.02 oz

Pages: 336