Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Hardcover

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Hardcover

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Hardcover

by Cheryl Strayed
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by Cheryl Strayed (Author)

NATIONAL BEST SELLER - Oprah's 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.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century

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: 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, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Author Biography

Cheryl Strayed is the author of Tiny Beautiful Things Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar and the novel Torch. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, The Rumpus, Self, The Missouri Review, The Sun, and The Best American Essays. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

www.cherylstrayed.com
Number of Pages: 336
Dimensions: 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.5 IN
Publication Date: March 20, 2012
Award: Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (2012)
Award: Oregon Book Awards (2013)
Award: Oregon Book Awards (2013)
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 6.5
Point Value: 21
ISBN9780307592736
Author Cheryl Strayed
PublisherKnopf Publishing Group
GenreBiography and Travel
FormatHardcover
PublishedMarch 2012
LanguageENG- English
Pages336
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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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.

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