Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 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. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State--and she would do it alone.

Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

作者簡介

雪兒．史翠德Cheryl Strayed

　　小說家和散文家，她的第一本小說《火炬》（Torch）在二○○六年出版，並進入大湖圖書獎（Great Lakes Book Award）的決賽，而且由俄瑞岡州居民評選為西北太平洋地區作家年度十大圖書之一。她的文章曾刊登在《紐約時報》、《華盛頓郵報》等，散文作品也兩次被選入美國最佳散文集。她畢業於美國明尼蘇達大學，擁有雪城大學小說寫作碩士。她是婦女文學藝術組織薇達（VIDA）的創始成員，並擔任其董事會。她目前與丈夫和兩個孩子居住在俄勒岡州波特蘭市。

　　Cheryl Strayed is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Torch. Her stories and essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Allure, The Rumpus, The Missouri Review, The Sun, The Best American Essays, and elsewhere. She lives in Portland, Oregon.