Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

2012. By Cheryl Strayed. A powerful, blazingly honest memoir of the author's eleven-hundred-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. This book has been getting rave reviews and is told with suspense and style. 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. Hardcover.  315 pp.