Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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Label

Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Title remainder

from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Statement of responsibility

Cheryl Strayed

Creator

• Strayed, Cheryl, 1968-

Author

• Strayed, Cheryl, 1968-

Subject

• Pacific Crest Trail -- Description and travel
• Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
• Strayed, Cheryl, 1968- -- Travel -- Pacific Crest Trail
• Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
• Nature, Healing power of

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

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 on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 813/.6
• B

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3619.T744

LC item number

Z46 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography