Review of "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed

Another walk book. Coming so soon after High Caucasus, it really is enough to put you off the idea of hiking holidays for life - the fear, the wild animals, the risk of death...

I'd already watched the film and mainly liked it. The book is less elegiac, more about the mechanics of the trip and the pain of actually walking that much. Cheryl doesn't hide the multiple bad decisions she makes, and even though I knew she survived to write the book parts of it were really scary. Some of it was not good to be reading last thing at night, even though it was gripping. Lots about her addiction, bad relationships, and troubled upbringing.