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RECORD NUMBER: 314 OF 317Main Title | Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail / | |||||||||||
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Author | Strayed, Cheryl, | |||||||||||
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2012 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 745979737 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 9780307592736; 0307592731; 0307592731; 9780307476074; 0307476073; 9781782390626; 1782390626; 9780857897770; 0857897772; 9780857897756; 0857897756 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Authors, American--21st century--Biography ; Hiking--Pacific Crest Trail ; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women ; Nature, Healing power of ; Pacific Crest Trail--Description and travel ; Biographies as Topic ; United States--Pacific Crest Trail ; American authors--Biography ; Authors, American--21st century--Biography--http://idlocgov/authorities/subjects/sh2009116219 ; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women--http://idlocgov/authorities/subjects/sh2006009068 ; Nature, Healing power of--http://idlocgov/authorities/subjects/sh85090280 ; Biographies as Topic--(DNLM)D001680--http://idnlmnihgov/mesh/D001680 | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Strayed, Cheryl,--1968---Travel--Pacific Crest Trail | |||||||||||
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Edition | 1st ed. | |||||||||||
Collation | 315 pages : map ; 25 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents Notes | Part 1: The ten thousand things. The ten thousand things ; Splitting ; Hunching in a remotely upright position -- Part 2: Tracks. The Pacific Crest Trail, volume I : California ; Tracks ; A bull in both directions ; The only girl in the woods -- Part 3: Range of light. Corvidology ; Staying found ; Range of light -- Part 4: Wild. The Lou out of Lou ; This far ; The accumulation of trees ; Wild -- Part 5: Box of rain. Box of rain ; Mazama ; Into a primal gear ; Queen of the PCT ; The dream of a common language -- Books burned on the PCT. 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 on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her. |