Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (oprah's Book Club 2.0)
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · March 26, 2013
#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.
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- Who it’s for
- Immersion with dirt under its nails and a steady sense of forward motion.
- Themes
- personal growth, grief and loss, wilderness adventure
- Pacing
- Mixed
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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. 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.
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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.
Hard-Travel Pulse
Immersion with dirt under its nails and a steady sense of forward motion.
Come here for
- Wilderness, travel, and inward-turning momentum
- A trail story that reads with hard edges and clear motion
Expect
- Performance-ready pacing
- Reflection folded into the journey
Where it sits
| Personal Memoirs | 80% |
|---|---|
| Hiking | 52% |
| Adventurers & Explorers | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- Adventure Travel
- Pacific West Travel (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)
- Authors
- Cheryl Strayed
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- March 26, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- personal growth · grief and loss · wilderness adventure
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs