A resonant study of self-discovery

Wild: A Journey From Lost to Found

**By Cheryl Strayed**

**Atlantic Books, €21.25**

**Reviewed by Brendan Daly**

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In a queue in an outdoor adventure shop in early 1995, Cheryl Strayed picked up a guidebook of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT): a wilderness route from the Mojave desert on the Mexico/US border through nine mountain ranges, crossing the states of California, Oregon and Washington, to the edge of Canada.

Strayed read the back, ...