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 on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307476074
- ISBN: 9780307592736
- Physical Description: 315 pages : map ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Part 1: The ten thousand things. The ten thousand things ; Splitting ; Hunching in a remotely upright position -- Part 2: Tracks. The Pacific Crest Trail, volume I : California ; Tracks ; A bull in both directions ; The only girl in the woods -- Part 3: Range of light. Corvidology ; Staying found ; Range of light -- Part 4: Wild. The Lou out of Lou ; This far ; The accumulation of trees ; Wild -- Part 5: Box of rain. Box of rain ; Mazama ; Into a primal gear ; Queen of the PCT ; The dream of a common language -- Books burned on the PCT.
- Target Audience Note:
- 1020L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.5 21 155609.Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 6.5 21 SD Quiz 155609 English non-fiction.
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- Strayed, Cheryl, 1968- > Travel > Pacific Crest Trail.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Rutherford County Library | B Strayed (Text) | 38801101501697 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | 813.6 S (Text) | 39493107091037 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | B STRAYED (Text) | 30664100220380 | Adult Biography | In transit | - |
| Andrews Public Library | B STRAYED (Text) | 80605000781152 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 08/18/2026 |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | NFIC 813.6 STR (Text) | 31111002805990 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Beaufort Main | B STRAYED (Text) | 34208203100796 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Berea Library | B STRAYE (Text) | 42756202346091 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Black Mountain Library | B STRAYED (Text) | 0020509723654 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Bladen Main Branch | B STRAYED (Text) | 30441100802057 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
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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.
