Wild and the Happy Valley

I’m not finished with the second book yet, but from what I’ve read so far, a comparison of the themes wandering, isolation, space and the search for (a female) self in Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Das glückliche Tal might be worthwhile. They are two very different books in very different settings from very different times, but both have a sense of ambivalent longing of strong yet flawed women.