Review: Wild. A Journey From Lost to Found - Cheryl Strayed.

I think I first became aware of this book because of the movie coming out. I decided to read the book first, but after reading it I decided to also watch the movie (at some point), because I liked the book so much.

The book details the author’s journey along the Pacific Crest Trail in the 1990s. Books like these are quite hit or miss for me. Sometimes the author has a tendency to just give you their itinerary, pretty much just detailing what happened when and how they got to this place etc. But Strayed manages to interweave her personal backstory with the main story of her travel along the trail, and to intersperse the telling of it with personal insights and ponderings. 

I usually found the story really interesting and it kept me reading even though perhaps not a lot of action takes place as such. As mentioned, the story is her travels along the trail, and obviously we know she survives it, otherwise she couldn’t be writing it. So the few touchy situations always have an underlying security in the sense that we know she made it out alive. But even so, sometimes you wonder just how she made it out, as she does get in a few bad situations along the way. 

I found the book interesting not only as a story about being on the trail and overcoming physical as well as mental challenges, but also as a story about traveling in general. This book almost gave me the urge to get myself to the Pacific Crest Trail and start hiking. I won’t, because I absolutely detest hiking, but it gave me the urge to get off my couch and go somewhere!! And I think that is the aim of any book that has travel as a main theme, whatever type of travel that is. 

I gave this book a solid 3 stars out of 5 on Goodreads.