Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

Cheryl Strayed

Mar 2012 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Bernadette Dunne

About this audiobook

Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.

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.

Ratings and reviews

Such garbage 17 years after she ‘writes’ about her trek really! This is a person that goes with no idea how to read a compass, w/o spare batteries for her headlamp, but remembers to bring condoms!! Total tripe...with this copy I definitely wouldn’t be passing this on, instead will use as a fire starter....

Beautiful book. Cheryl Strayed is one heck of a storyteller. Great story for those who are struggling and want to feel a little less hopeless about the direction their life is going. One of my favorites. Definitely give it a listen!

Extremely excellent true story. Loved it !!

About the author

Cheryl Strayed is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Torch. Her stories and essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Allure, The Rumpus, The Missouri Review, The Sun, The Best American Essays, and elsewhere. She lives in Portland, Oregon.