Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
Wild is a powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an 1100-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe – and built her back up again.
At 22, 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: 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.
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Kim’s Review – I loved the adventure Cheryl took me on along the Pacific Crest trail. I almost felt her blisters, chafing, and heavier-than-hell backpack that she lugged along on her quest to find herself – and I could *nearly* taste the nasty water she sucked out of less-than-desirable watering holes! Iodine pills are key! Trips like these force you to find yourself. I lived vicariously…for now.
Absolutely fantastic – ★★★★★
