For people most interested in reading about the author’s outdoor adventures, there are vivid details of her experiences in nature, including encounters with animals. The author’s past is presented in flashbacks, which occur while she is hiking, thinking about, and processing her life and past experiences. The author’s emotional expedition into her childhood and early adulthood is intertwined (intertwined = twisted or mixed together) with her travels on the Pacific Crest Trail. The book Wild is both an emotional journey and an outdoor adventure tale. It is during this adventure that she begins to come to terms with (to come to terms with = to start to accept and deal with a difficult situation) the losses and changes in her life. So, she set out on an adventure! Although she has very little backpacking experience she decided to begin a multiple-month backpacking journey on the rugged (rugged = ground that is rocky and uneven) Pacific Crest Trail through the states of California and Oregon in the United States. In the midst (midst = middle) of all of this, Cheryl Strayed decides to make a dramatic change in her life, to start again, and leave all the hurt and sadness behind. Around the same time as her mother’s death, the author’s marriage began to dissolve (dissolve = to come undone) and she began engaging in reckless behaviors and struggles with an addiction to drugs. At that time in her life the author had very recently experienced the loss of her mother due to lung cancer. This book takes place when the author was 26 years old. The Pacific Crest Trail is a 2,600 mi (4,286 km) long backpacking footpath from the Mexican/American border to the Canadian/American border, on the West Coast of the United States. But this is also an adventure story, as the book recounts the author’s journey for 3 months on the Pacific Crest Trail. This book, is considered a “memoir” or “autobiography,” which means it is a personal account of the events in one’s life. With much acclaim (acclaim = praise), the book Wild was released in 2012, and now, in 2014, the upcoming movie is also much anticipated. Reading a book, then watching the movie version of the book is a great way to work on so many areas of language development! One reason I am recommending this book to you now is that very soon a movie version of this book is going to come out.
The book I am thinking of is called Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. If you are looking for a good book to read in English, let me recommend to you a personal adventure story that I really like.
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