Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

Cheryl Strayed

Mar 2012 · Sold by Vintage

About this ebook

#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.

Ratings and reviews

This is both spiritually and physically inspiring in terms of hiking the PCT, I admire the authors self awareness in being able to confront her abandonment issues instead of moving forward with drug addiction and endless seeking. She learned to love herself, which all people need to do, no mother or husband will make up for a lack of self love. I didn't give it five stars because she misses that point, even people who have living mothers can still have the lack of self love referred to as the addicts hole

Cheryl Strayed taught me to look at my life for what it is, with empathy and understanding. I advise this book to anyone who feels lost in the midst of injustice, anger, shame and pain. Or anyone who loves mountains. :) Easy and nice read. Beautiful writing: "Everything but me seemed utterly certain of itself. The sky didn’t wonder where it was."

Before I even picked up this book, and during a time in my life when I was experiencing so many trials, I became enthralled...almost addicted....to walking. People would ask me "where do you walk" and my answer is always the same "I just start walking and wherever my heart leads me I go." Walking healed me through some tough times, not only physical but emotional and spiritual. I can definitely see how hiking the PCT would heal a person. Great journey and inspirational.

About the author

CHERYL STRAYED is the author of the #1 New York Times best seller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which was the first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0 and became an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon;Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, a national best seller now the basis of the WBUR podcast Dear Sugar Radio, co-hosted with Steve Almond; and Torch, her debut novel. Her books have been translated into forty languages, and her essays and other writings have appeared in numerous publications.