title: Walking Home: A collection of journal entries while thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
author: Jamie Byarlay
description: After living on an island for two and a half years, Jamie realized it was time to come home. Feeling the need to explore, she moved off Oahu, started her journey at the Mexican border and walked home to the Pacific Northwest.
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  **ALSO BY CHERYL STRAYED**
  
  
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  **THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK  
  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF**
  
  
  Copyright © 2012 by Cheryl Strayed
  
  
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by  
  Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  
  Strayed, Cheryl, [date]  
  Wild / Cheryl Strayed. — 1st ed.  
  p. cm.  
  eISBN: 978-0-307-95765-8  
  1\. Strayed, Cheryl, [date]—Travel—Pacific Crest Trail. 2. Authors,
  American—21st century—Biography. 3. Pacific Crest Trail—Description and
  travel. I. Title.  
  PS3619.T744Z46 2012 813′.6 [B] 2011033752
  
  
  Map by Mapping Specialists  
  Jacket photograph: iStockphoto  
  Jacket design by Gabriele Wilson
  
  
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