WildAt twenty six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven hundred miles of the west coast of Americafrom the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, and into Washington stateand to do it alone. She had no experience of long distance hiking and the journey