![]() ![]() There are flashbacks from her life but no heroes or villains. Strayed crosses 1,100 miles not to find a destination but to find herself. Some readers know Strayed from her insightful, meditative Dear Sugar advice columns, But most know her from Wild, her account of walking across North America’s Pacific Crest Trail in 1995 with no experience and nothing but her wits for company. ![]() Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012) ![]() Take a look at other books that follow a journey on foot: What Dempster comes away with is a celebration of the journey – funny accounts of people met, drunken haircuts, bathrooms visited and meals. Those tales emerged as a fictional group of pilgrims walked the well-worn path from London to the Canterbury Cathedral, leaving readers with not just elaborate stories but a picture of English society of the time. Literature has been concerned with walking, right from The Canterbury Tales when Chaucer compiled 24 stories in Middle English between 13. Whether you’re strident about striding or prefer the gamble of an amble, somewhere, a writer has felt the same as you and put those feelings down in a book. ![]()
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