Thorndike Biography: Wild : From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)

from JillHannah

I enjoyed reading about a fellow Minnesota gal who did something I'd have never dared to do. Lots of guts, a little slow in places, but enjoyed the journey via Cheryl.

from Donna828

The 2,663 mile long Pacific Crest Trail spans the western mountains of the United States much like the Appalachian Trail meanders north and south on the eastern part of the country. Cheryl Strayed was a 26-year-old broken soul when she spent three months in 1995 hiking through California and Oreg...

from Pferdina

I liked this memoir a lot. Hiking the PCT just to do it is something I can imagine doing, although I would probably have prepared better. The author has a lot of pain and confusion after her mother's death, her family disintegrates, and her marriage dissolves. The physical challenge of the trail ...

from jnwelch

Chery Strayed, the author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, didn't have much growing up, but her mother always said "We aren't poor, because we're rich in love." Her mother was everything to the family, a "spectacular mom" despite her deficiencies. But she then unexpectedly ...

from Berly

I loved this book! Gut-wrenching honesty, beautiful writing, humor. What's not to like? Cheryl's life is falling apart in so, so many ways. Let me share a little piece of the book. My mother's "death had obliterated me. It had cut me short at the very height of my youthful arrogance. It had force...