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English cyclist, adventurer, author and motivational speaker
Recommended by 7 notable people, including Tim Ferriss and Oprah Winfrey
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Wild is an intimate, voice-driven memoir that mixes detailed trail scenes with extended personal memory and reckoning. Its useful part is the candid, often lyrical account of walking 1,100 miles while working through recent bereavement and life rupture; those emotional passages hit hardest when paired with concrete moments on the trail. Main limitation: the narrative frequently detours into interior monologue and repetition, so readers wanting strict chronology, practical hiking info, or brisk pacing may find stretches slow or indulgent.
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At twentysix, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family drifted apart and her marriage crumbled. With nothing left to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk elevenhundred miles of the west coast of America and to do it alone. She had no experience of lo...
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Recommended by 12 sources and appears in Memoirs, Books Recommended by Tim Ferriss, and Action & Adventure.
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Consider The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. Recommended by 60 sources.
“A blunt, conversational tour through the worst parts of building a company. Horowitz shares personal stories from his own startup failures and recoveries, offering practical wisdom on layoffs, pivots, CEO loneliness, and managing when times are bad. The value is in the honest, experience-based insight you won't get from business school. The limitation is its narrow focus on venture-backed tech startups—if you're not in that world, some advice may feel irrelevant. Reads like a wise mentor telling you what nobody else will.”
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