--- product_id: 246284 title: "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" price: "€ 27.19" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.es/products/246284-wild-from-lost-to-found-on-the-pacific-crest-trail store_origin: ES region: Spain --- # Autobiographical journey Limited quantity - act fast Pacific Crest Trail hike Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail **Price:** € 27.19 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🥾 Embark on the ultimate journey from lost to found—don’t miss out on this trailblazing memoir! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - **How much does it cost?** € 27.19 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.es](https://www.desertcart.es/products/246284-wild-from-lost-to-found-on-the-pacific-crest-trail) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Cinematic Impact:** Join the cultural moment—this bestselling memoir inspired a major motion picture, making it a staple for trend-savvy readers. - • **Real, Raw, Relatable:** Dive into Cheryl Strayed’s authentic journey of grief and self-discovery on the iconic Pacific Crest Trail. - • **Limited Edition Urgency:** With limited stock available, this is your chance to own a must-read memoir that’s sparking conversations everywhere. - • **Trailblazing Bestseller:** Ranked top #33 in Traveler & Explorer Biographies and boasting over 76,000 glowing reviews with a 4.4-star average. - • **Emotional & Inspirational:** Experience a powerful narrative that blends physical endurance with emotional resilience, perfect for anyone seeking motivation. ## Overview Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail is Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling autobiographical memoir chronicling her transformative solo hike along the rugged Pacific Crest Trail. Ranked among the top traveler biographies with over 76,000 reviews, this emotionally charged narrative explores grief, resilience, and self-discovery. Limited quantities available—grab your copy and join the millions inspired by this cultural phenomenon. ## Description #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. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century 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. Review: A Wild book review - I recently finished Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. It is a book about a woman who hikes a trail on the west coast in hopes of finding herself. It is an autobiography written by Cheryl herself as she hikes. I think this book is a must read. It was inspiring and uplifting, in a way that only a book about a woman who has hit rock bottom and fights her way back up can. Although there are plenty of books about women who struggle with self identity and depression, Cheryl did a good job of making this one engaging and different. I happen to like the autobiography genre because I like that the story is about real peoples struggles. I like to read about the challenges and how they overcome them, even if the challenges that most autobiographies are written about are extreme and hard to imagine, I feel that I can easily take them in context and apply them to situations that may arise in my, or someone close to me's life. Cheryl made me feel like I was her friend and companion on the hike. I laughed when she laughed and cried when she cried. Although there were points in the journey when even I was bored with the walking, I felt that those points were necessary to make the journey feel real. She did a great job of pulling me back in after these lulls and I was just as engrossed as before. I found the miscellaneous characters that flutter in and out to be quirky and entertaining. At the end of the book I thought about them and wondered where they were now and how they were doing. She only gave us a fleeting view of them, but she also had just a fleeting view of them herself. She focused more on how they affected her and what she learned from them, rather than on actually developing the characters. I liked that even though it was a book all about the discovery of who Cheryl Strayed really is, she gave us an insight into other characters that she met along the way. She was descriptive enough to set the plot for me, enabling me to envision her beautiful and treacherous hike while at the same time not being sickened by the descriptive words of beauty. I found the plot easy to follow, although considering the plot is almost entirely about a woman hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, you would think that would be pretty straightforward; however, Cheryl found a way to entwine her trials and tribulations into the book while not making it confusing and jumpy. I would recommend this book to anyone going through a hard time in their life, but even for people that are not. It is a feel good book that makes you want to go strap a backpack on and take on the PCT today! I wanted to include some of the negative reviews that I found online. I found that most of them had to do with the actual hike, or the genre as a whole. Many people had written that all she did was complain through the book. I didn’t find this book to be whiny or self-centered. I liked the way that she was forced to focus on herself the entire time. I will say that she complained, a lot, about the hike and how hard it was but I believe that she was using that as a tool to show her readers how much of a journey it was. I think she whined to show that not only was she working through some very tough emotional stuff, she was doing it while working through some very tough physical stuff as well. I am not a hiker, so I have no insight into whether she portrayed hiking, as a sport, correctly so if you are a hiker and would like to shed some light here, feel free. The last complaint that I will talk about was the one of her lifestyle before the hike. I think that many people were cruel in the way that they bashed Cheryl’s lifestyle leading up to the hike. I think that she accurately portrayed a 25 something woman who has a pretty messed up life. I will agree that her choices were poor, but I think she handled it how she thought she could and I think that people who threw stones in the reviews about her life choices, sounded like they hadn’t really dealt with heartbreak and total life failure. There are different types of people in the world, those who make lemonade when life throws them lemons and people that throw the lemons away and chug a bottle of vodka. If you liked my post, visit my website at www.balancingemma.wordpress.com Review: very good read--just hope it's true - This book got better and better the farther I got into it. Strayed is definitely a very good writer. I'm still puzzled about how she made it all the way to the end of the PCT if her feet were in as bad a condition as she described them--seems like they just would not have held up under the incredible stress, especially since the foot problems started almost at the beginning of the trip. Also, the sores she got from her backpack, and the fact that she just kept on rubbing the same sores raw every day, would seem to have gotten infected or something if they were as bad as she said. Maybe that "second skin" stuff that she used was really miraculous. I noticed that some reviewers who did not like this book were critical of Strayed for her personal problems and were even quite judgmental about her indiscretions and infidelities. Actually, these were the parts of the story that made her seem so human to me. If her story of how she grew up is true, then I think she's truly a person of amazing intestinal fortitude. Reading about how much she loved her mother and how devastated she was to lose her at such a young age (Strayed was 22 and her mother was only in her forties) made me personally feel kind of envious of such a close mother-daughter relationship, which is something my mother and I never quite accomplished. It brings into stark relief the many ways in which people hurt in life, whether from losing someone they love deeply or somehow never really having a comfortable relationship with someone they love but don't know how to really connect with. I hope this story is true. I hate to be such a skeptic, but because some people lately have published such phony memoirs, it makes it a little hard for me not to be skeptical of all memoirs now. Sad that it's that way. That said, this story is all perfectly believable, when you come right down to it, and by the end I was pretty much convinced that she was on the level, and I was really moved by her catharsis. I know that people really can and do recover from life's traumas through amazing and challenging experiences in nature. Part of me would really like to give this book five stars, but I'm holding back because a little part of me suspects that some of her physical maladies on the trail were somewhat exaggerated. Oh, and let me not forget what drove me absolutely crazy in the early part of the book, and that is why in God's name someone clearly as smart and capable as she was did not have sense enough to lighten her backpack, and why it took so long before one of the folks she met on the trail had sense enough to do that for her. This part just didn't make sense. Maybe that's why I can't give this book 5 stars. I read this book because it was the selection for the month in my book club. It was a really good read, and I'm glad I read it. ## Features - 102812 Has limited quantity available ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #3,743 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #20 in Traveler & Explorer Biographies #37 in Women's Biographies #74 in Memoirs (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 76,273 Reviews | ## Images ![Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71M6e86LzpL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Wild book review *by B***A on April 20, 2015* I recently finished Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. It is a book about a woman who hikes a trail on the west coast in hopes of finding herself. It is an autobiography written by Cheryl herself as she hikes. I think this book is a must read. It was inspiring and uplifting, in a way that only a book about a woman who has hit rock bottom and fights her way back up can. Although there are plenty of books about women who struggle with self identity and depression, Cheryl did a good job of making this one engaging and different. I happen to like the autobiography genre because I like that the story is about real peoples struggles. I like to read about the challenges and how they overcome them, even if the challenges that most autobiographies are written about are extreme and hard to imagine, I feel that I can easily take them in context and apply them to situations that may arise in my, or someone close to me's life. Cheryl made me feel like I was her friend and companion on the hike. I laughed when she laughed and cried when she cried. Although there were points in the journey when even I was bored with the walking, I felt that those points were necessary to make the journey feel real. She did a great job of pulling me back in after these lulls and I was just as engrossed as before. I found the miscellaneous characters that flutter in and out to be quirky and entertaining. At the end of the book I thought about them and wondered where they were now and how they were doing. She only gave us a fleeting view of them, but she also had just a fleeting view of them herself. She focused more on how they affected her and what she learned from them, rather than on actually developing the characters. I liked that even though it was a book all about the discovery of who Cheryl Strayed really is, she gave us an insight into other characters that she met along the way. She was descriptive enough to set the plot for me, enabling me to envision her beautiful and treacherous hike while at the same time not being sickened by the descriptive words of beauty. I found the plot easy to follow, although considering the plot is almost entirely about a woman hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, you would think that would be pretty straightforward; however, Cheryl found a way to entwine her trials and tribulations into the book while not making it confusing and jumpy. I would recommend this book to anyone going through a hard time in their life, but even for people that are not. It is a feel good book that makes you want to go strap a backpack on and take on the PCT today! I wanted to include some of the negative reviews that I found online. I found that most of them had to do with the actual hike, or the genre as a whole. Many people had written that all she did was complain through the book. I didn’t find this book to be whiny or self-centered. I liked the way that she was forced to focus on herself the entire time. I will say that she complained, a lot, about the hike and how hard it was but I believe that she was using that as a tool to show her readers how much of a journey it was. I think she whined to show that not only was she working through some very tough emotional stuff, she was doing it while working through some very tough physical stuff as well. I am not a hiker, so I have no insight into whether she portrayed hiking, as a sport, correctly so if you are a hiker and would like to shed some light here, feel free. The last complaint that I will talk about was the one of her lifestyle before the hike. I think that many people were cruel in the way that they bashed Cheryl’s lifestyle leading up to the hike. I think that she accurately portrayed a 25 something woman who has a pretty messed up life. I will agree that her choices were poor, but I think she handled it how she thought she could and I think that people who threw stones in the reviews about her life choices, sounded like they hadn’t really dealt with heartbreak and total life failure. There are different types of people in the world, those who make lemonade when life throws them lemons and people that throw the lemons away and chug a bottle of vodka. If you liked my post, visit my website at www.balancingemma.wordpress.com ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ very good read--just hope it's true *by J***A on February 4, 2013* This book got better and better the farther I got into it. Strayed is definitely a very good writer. I'm still puzzled about how she made it all the way to the end of the PCT if her feet were in as bad a condition as she described them--seems like they just would not have held up under the incredible stress, especially since the foot problems started almost at the beginning of the trip. Also, the sores she got from her backpack, and the fact that she just kept on rubbing the same sores raw every day, would seem to have gotten infected or something if they were as bad as she said. Maybe that "second skin" stuff that she used was really miraculous. I noticed that some reviewers who did not like this book were critical of Strayed for her personal problems and were even quite judgmental about her indiscretions and infidelities. Actually, these were the parts of the story that made her seem so human to me. If her story of how she grew up is true, then I think she's truly a person of amazing intestinal fortitude. Reading about how much she loved her mother and how devastated she was to lose her at such a young age (Strayed was 22 and her mother was only in her forties) made me personally feel kind of envious of such a close mother-daughter relationship, which is something my mother and I never quite accomplished. It brings into stark relief the many ways in which people hurt in life, whether from losing someone they love deeply or somehow never really having a comfortable relationship with someone they love but don't know how to really connect with. I hope this story is true. I hate to be such a skeptic, but because some people lately have published such phony memoirs, it makes it a little hard for me not to be skeptical of all memoirs now. Sad that it's that way. That said, this story is all perfectly believable, when you come right down to it, and by the end I was pretty much convinced that she was on the level, and I was really moved by her catharsis. I know that people really can and do recover from life's traumas through amazing and challenging experiences in nature. Part of me would really like to give this book five stars, but I'm holding back because a little part of me suspects that some of her physical maladies on the trail were somewhat exaggerated. Oh, and let me not forget what drove me absolutely crazy in the early part of the book, and that is why in God's name someone clearly as smart and capable as she was did not have sense enough to lighten her backpack, and why it took so long before one of the folks she met on the trail had sense enough to do that for her. This part just didn't make sense. Maybe that's why I can't give this book 5 stars. I read this book because it was the selection for the month in my book club. It was a really good read, and I'm glad I read it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fearless writing & living *by M***R on April 2, 2012* WILD is a fearlessly told, wildly fantastic, and entertaining story. The author, Cheryl Strayed (not her birth name, but one she chose after a her divorce) exceeded any and all expectations I had when Wild arrived in my mailbox. This is a memoir, but reads like a novel. All human behavior, interaction, and communication, I think, is best understood via the narrative, in other words--a story. And so I am going to talk about this story as if it were fiction - in the language of the six fundamental elements of a story. Title. Perfect. To look at the spine is to see 'Cheryl Strayed WILD'. Which would induce me to pluck it off any shelf. [However, I think the cover would have been better with a snapshot of Cheryl, or a trail maker of the PCT; but I understand the choice of the boot.] Cheryl Strayed is a wild girl, as she says: "I was an experimentalist ... An artist. The kind of woman who said yes instead of no." (p. 54) That is a trail marker letting the reader know just what kind of journey you are about to get into. Plot. One of the best - Redemption of the human soul through the force of will, strength, and toughness. Briefly, Cheryl was born in 1968, white, female, attractive, intelligent, and in addition had the benefit of a college education. You could call her advantaged. But, big but, she was born into rural poverty and domestic violence and then her champion, advocate, and sole support - her mother - died suddenly of cancer when Cheryl was twenty-two. Cheryl, lost, descended into debauchery, seemingly bent on self- destruction via sex and drugs. Characterization. Not only did I quickly begin to root for Cheryl, I fell in love with her. She was/is the personification of my "perfect" woman. [I am aware, wistfully, that the person I am in love with is a fiction--a 26 year-old woman with the wisdom and wit of the same person 15 years later.] Not only was she white, young, attractive, intelligent, and funny; she was by her declaration: "--strong and responsible, clear-eyed and driven, ethical and good." (p. 57) [And] "I was a big fat idiot and I didn't know what the hell I was doing ..." (p.58) [Told you she was funny.] And it just keeps getting better, funnier; and yet in the next sentence she is as likely to bring tears to my eyes as to make me laugh out loud. Point of view. Her voice is perfect. I can hear her, see her! In all her joy and sadness and frustration, in other words, in all her humanity ... or femaleness. Cheryl blends the past with the present in the telling of her story masterfully. There is no confusion for the reader. Her wisdom and humor and reflection merge in ways that are really rare in writing. Setting. The Pacific Crest Trail, from the deserts of southern California, through the high Sierras and into the "Box of Rain" to the Bridge of the Gods on the Columbia River in Oregon, she describes it beautifully, as well as all the characters, camps, and towns along the trail. And most significantly for me--what it is like to hike alone, mile after mile after mile. [A thing I am very, very familiar with.] Theme. The power of the human spirit and the unequivocal interaction of the force of nature with that of man (woman) to combine to heal and restore a person to their true self. This is a rare book. I read a lot, and have never fallen for a writer and a voice and a story like I did for Cheryl Strayed and WILD. ## Frequently Bought Together - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition): Reese's Book Club: Advice from Dear Sugar - Brave Enough --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.es/products/246284-wild-from-lost-to-found-on-the-pacific-crest-trail](https://www.desertcart.es/products/246284-wild-from-lost-to-found-on-the-pacific-crest-trail) --- *Product available on Desertcart Spain* *Store origin: ES* *Last updated: 2026-06-01*