02078cam a2200301 4500 424333034 TxAuBib 20141126120000.0 111227s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011033752 9780307592736 0307592731 9780307476074 0307476073 DLC DLC TxAuBib Strayed, Cheryl, 1968- Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail / Cheryl Strayed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. 315 p. ; 25 cm. 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. 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....from dust jacket. 20141126. Strayed, Cheryl 1968- Hiking. California Description and travel. Oregon Description and travel. Washington (State) Description and travel. Pacific Crest Trail.