Wild (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

A$130 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

Signed

STRAYED, Cheryl. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015. Octavo. Full burgundy leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Cover with gilt mountain scene. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 315 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special dedication page tipped in by the publisher. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. In the spring of 1995, Cheryl Strayed was twenty-six years old, recently divorced, intermittently using heroin, and four years on from the death of her mother from lung cancer at forty-five — a loss from which she had not recovered and did not know how to recover. On something between an impulse and a conviction she decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail alone. She had never backpacked before. She bought a pack so large and heavy that she could barely lift it, filled it with equipment she had never used, and set out from the Mojave Desert with the intention of walking north for eleven hundred miles to the Oregon-Washington border. She called the pack "Monster." Wild , published in 2012, is the account of those ninety-four days. It is simultaneously a travel memoir, a grief memoir, and a memoir of self-reconstruction — the story of what happened to Strayed on the trail, and the story, told in counterpoint, of everything

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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