Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Written by Cheryl Strayed
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336
Page count
384
Words per page
1020L
Lexile measure
Mar 20, 2012
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NATIONAL BEST SELLER - 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.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780307592736
    Publication Date
    March 20, 2012
    Publisher
    Knopf Publishing Group
    Page Count
    336
    Words Per Page
    384
    Audience
    Adult
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2011033752
    Lexile® Level
    1020L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~Y
    ATOS® Book Level
    6.5
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    21
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    155609
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    UG

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