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Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail / Cheryl Strayed.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307592736 (hc.)
- ISBN: 0307592731 (hc.)
- ISBN: 9780307476074 (trade pbk.) :
- ISBN: 9781594136740 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781101873441 (Vintage ed. pbk.) :
- Physical Description: 315 p. : map ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf ; c2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Mar 12 |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The ten thousand things -- Splitting -- Hunching in a remotely upright position -- The Pacific Crest Trail, volume I : California -- Tracks -- A bull in both directions -- The only girl in the woods -- Corvidology -- Staying found -- Range of light -- The lou out of lou -- This far -- The accumulation of trees -- Wild -- Box of rain -- Mazama -- Into a primal gear -- The queen of the PCT -- The dream of a common language. |
| Target Audience Note: | All Ages. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Strayed, Cheryl, 1968- > Travel > Pacific Crest Trail. Authors, American > 21st century > Biography. Pacific Crest Trail > Description and travel. |
| Topic Heading: | Book club. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Prince Rupert Library | 813.6 Stra (Text) | 33294001817154 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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. 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.
