At twenty-six Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer her family disbanded & her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America
- from the Mojave Desert through California & Oregon & into Washington state
- & to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking & the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise
- a promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet. Strayed's account captures the agonies
- both mental & physical
- of her incredible journey; how it maddened & terrified her & how ultimately it healed her. Wild is a brutal memoir of survival grief & redemption: a searing portrayal of life at its lowest ebb & at its highest tide.""




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I took seven years over this work spent all I had my time money & energy. Part of the journey was a green riot & part a deathly bleakness. I got ill I got well. I went to the freedom fighters of West Papua & sang my head off in their highlands. I met cannibals infinitely kinder & more trustworthy than the murderous missionaries who evangelize them. I anchored a boat to an iceberg where polar bears slept; ate witchetty grubs & visited sea gypsies. I found a paradox of wildness in the glinting softness of its charisma for what is savage is in the deepest sense gentle & what is wild is kind. In the end
- a strangely sweet result
- I came back to a wild home...

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One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry brave sad self-knowing redemptive raw compelling & brilliantly written & I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people men & women for a very long time.' Nick Hornby At twenty-six Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer her family disbanded & her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America
- from the Mojave Desert through California & Oregon & into Washington state
- & to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking & the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise
- a promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet.


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This work is a celebration of the natural history of Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly. It features 40 sites including: the best places to see flora & fauna in a variety of habitats across the county & on the islands; suggested walks; & Approx. 580 species. ...

Enthusiasm for the natural world & countryside matters is at the heart of this book which depicts a year in the life of Iolo Williams
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Discover over 325 species of wild animal found in Britain & Europe with this new edition in association with the RSPB. From the Fire-bellied Midwife to the Bison discover over 325 species of wild animal arranged in conventional taxonomical order with this pocket-sized guide. In-situ photographs & no nonsense notes will help you identify them in the field quickly & accurately. Maps show you what wild animals to find where so you can plan your spotting & make the most of your surroundings whether you are on a holiday browse or serious quest. It is an ideal guide for all the family. ...

This is a fiendishly pacy mystery-adventure story for 9+ readers set in the seamy smoggy underworld of Victorian London. Behold the savage spectacle of the wild boy
- one penny a kick! Wild Boy has been covered in hair since birth; he's the missing link a monster a sideshow spectacle. Condemned to life in a travelling freakshow excluded from society & abused by his master he takes refuge in watching people come & go at the fair
- & develops a Sherlock Holmes style talent for observation & detection. But when there's a murder suspicion turns on Wild Boy & he & the feisty redhaired acrobat Clarissa Everett find themselves on the run from a London-wide manhunt. Together the detective & the acrobat must solve clues to identify the real killer confronting the sinister underside of scientific advancement & the darkness of Wild Boy's own nature. Dripping with atmosphere & gothic gore Wild Boy" will appeal to fans of Sherlock Holmes gothic horror & all things murderous & mysterious. First novel from a confident new voice in children's fiction. Early interest in film rights for Wild Boy. Sequel title: " Wild Boy & The Black Terror" to follow."

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Talented chef Juliet Eden imagines she has the perfect marriage to Toby
- a titled aristocrat
- & no need to stray from her

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There is a secret history of the world
- a history in which an alien virus struck the Earth in the aftermath of World War II endowing
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Raising her daughters alone widowed Flora Wilcox often feels out of her depth. Theres no problem with mousy Hilary but Isobel is a wayward beauty who can never forgive her plainer sister for stealing her boyfriend & will be pregnant before she marries. Worse the father of Isobels baby isnt her new husband
- & when the truth comes out her marriage is likely to hit the rocks. Hilarys life seems to be moving along more calmly until her husband is badly injured in an accident. & as she takes charge of his business Hilary also faces the discovery that her adored children are struggling at school. Theres hope if the sisters can pull together at last
- but can they ever put the past behind them?

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