Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Strayed, Cheryl 1968- (Author).

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

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ISBN: 9780307592736
ISBN: 0307592731
ISBN: 0307592731
ISBN: 9780307476074
ISBN: 0307476073
ISBN: 9781782390626
ISBN: 1782390626
ISBN: 9780857897770
ISBN: 0857897772
ISBN: 9780857897756
ISBN: 0857897756
Physical Description: print
regular print
315 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Contents / Notes

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.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 6.5 21 SD Quiz 155609 English non-fiction.
Awards Note:	Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award, 2012. Discover Great New Writers, 2012. Indies Choice Book Awards, 2013. Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, 2013.

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