Wild - From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed

Knopf

2012

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-13: 9780307592736

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.

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5 (Perfeito)

This book wasn't on my reading list of this year, but as it appeared in my life, I was enchanted even with the prologue. Cheryl Strayed seemed to put her soul into this writing. As we read it, we can almost feel as if we were out there in the woods with her, feeling her loneliness as well as her joy with every small achievement. The book does gets a bit slow after a while, but I guess there was no other way of representing this journey so truthfully - and never it was so gratifying to complete a reading. This book was eye opening for me, as it gave me a hole new view in life. Cheryl goes through a lot of heavy stuff in her life concerning both her surroundings and her inner being, but as the reading goes, we can clearly see how all of this made her stronger. I usually don't get emotional with books, but this one has made me cry a few times as a consequence of me being so immersed in it. However, the amount of times I've cried does not compare to the amount of times I've caught myself smiling throughout the book. It was worth the reading, it's a great book.