Wild: An Inspiring True Story of Rediscovering Self on the Pacific Crest Trail

B. Barnett: Exquisitely written--painfully so at times--this rite of passage is inspiring, poignant and, like Cheryl's time on the PCT, irrevocably over too soon.

United States on Oct 05, 2023

mouse: Such a well written book, full of feeling, description, emotion, reality. You feel every step she takes, and her honesty is superb. I could not put it down.

United Kingdom on Sep 21, 2023

Saraí LaraSaraí Lara: El libro me encanta, me compré está versión en físico y llegó maltratado, y no se si será error de impresión pero la portada viene más corta que el resto de páginas

Mexico on Aug 21, 2023

T satyanarayana: This is the story about the author’s journey around eleven hundred miles that is “Pacific Crest Trail”.How she achieved it,she narrated it in a beautiful way.Interesting to learn how passion makes difficult things to be done without out give up.

India on Aug 15, 2023

Bryan CareyBryan Carey: Grief can lead us in many different directions. It can lead to self- reflection, a change in priorities, a stronger realization of one’s own mortality, and so on. It can lead people to try things or do things they never considered before. Such is the case with Wild, a true story of a woman shellshocked by grief who decides to take time to find herself by hiking the Pacific Crest Trail.

Wild is a journey of discovery and growth. The author didn’t spend all her time alone hiking the trail, but she was alone for most of it, and she wasn’t as well- prepared, physically or otherwise, as a person should be. Her descriptions of places, people, the outdoors, the physical endurance, and other things help you feel like you are right there with her, experiencing the awe, the relief, the pain, and more.

One of the things I like about this book is that it’s not a story about someone who has everything and decides to see what it’s like to rough it, to live life on the other side. I get tired of books like that; books that feature an individual from a privileged background who decides to find out how others live and survive. No, this is a book about an ordinary person. A...

United States on Dec 27, 2021

Kira S.: There is something fascinating about the idea of going far away from everything and everyone you know, being alone in the world, and searching for who you really are in a setting where the only expectations are those you impose upon yourself. This is what Cheryl Strayed did in Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. One of the things she discovered is that the impulsivity and lack of direction which plagued her in her "real" life dogged her as she trekked the Pacific Crest Trail. She was both woefully unprepared for the challenges of the trail and almost laughably overprepared with a backpack that was, by her estimation, half her own weight.

Fortunately, Cheryl met some good Samaritans along the way who helped to educate her in the art and science of backpacking and assisted her in editing the contents of her backpack to a more reasonable and sustainable level. She wrote frankly about her mistakes, miscalculations, and mishaps as she slowly made her way northward through the Mojave Desert to the Sierra Nevada mountain range (most of which she bypassed by hitchhiking because of record snowfall that year) and all the way up to the Bridge of the Gods at the...

United States on Oct 25, 2017

C.G.: Le film est basé sur une histoire vraie (et le livre correspondant) d'une jeune femme, issue d'une famille "difficile", qui perd sa mère très jeune, et se retrouve en situation de "survie psychologique" pour assimiler cette perte. Le moyen pour vivre ce deuil, et ses conséquences néfastes sur sa santé et sa vie de couple? Parcourir le Pacific Crest Trail (un GR de 1700km), sans aucune préparation. Chapeau! Il fallait le faire.
Un bel hymne à la marche, salvatrice et guérisseuse, pour se réapproprier son corps, sa vie, s'oxygéner la tête, résoudre ses problèmes, et commencer à traçer un nouveau chemin, une nouvelle tranche de vie.
Perdre un être cher, qui constitue un "point d'attache", surtout jeune, est une épreuve extrême. Ensuite, survie. Et chacun fait ce qu'il peut, avec les moyens du bord, i.e. les réserves psychologiques disponibles à ce moment-là. Le film nous montre le pouvoir de la marche, en milieu difficile (loin de tout, désert, chaleur, problèmes de ravitaillement et d'eau, etc.) comme solution, que l'auteur a adopté. Passionnant pour découvri les réserves au fond de soi, bref, comme moyen de résilience.
La participation de Cheryl...

France on Jul 14, 2017

A. Linton: Strangely enough I never heard of the film before I downloaded this book. I was irresistably drawn to it by the incredible quote about the Universe never joking etc which I read elsewhere. It conjured up an incredible tale of a woman pitched against the unforgiving elements in a struggle for survival and the lost boot incident which inspires the quote which opens the book-reinforced my belief that this would be a 'Touching the Void' or 'Into Thin Air' type story of survival against the odds.
Cheryl starts out lugging a huge pack half her body weight, with ill fitting boots, completely alone on the trail woman pitted against the elements etc. Despite the discomfort she is determined to persevere. I settled down to enjoy the story. Imagine how deflated I felt when I few miles on our heroine makes a detour to civilisation (for some reason that escapes me) catches a lift and stays overnight with some kind people. This forms a pattern for the rest of the book - she is forever hitching rides, catching buses, so much so that I started to wonder how much hiking she had actually done.
Within the context of the story the boot incident actually turns out to be pretty insignificant -...

United Kingdom on Feb 15, 2017