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Into the Wild

by: Jon Krakauer

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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Krakauer
EAN: 9780307387172
ISBN: 0307387178
Item Dimensions: 7955155068
Label: Anchor
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Anchor
MPN: W753
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 207
Publication Date: August 21, 2007
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Studio: Anchor

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In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter....

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What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.

Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate, and funny, did McCandless simply read too much Thoreau and Jack London and lose sight of the dangers of heading into the wilderness alone? Krakauer, whose own adventures have taken him to the perilous heights of Everest, provides some answers by exploring the pull the outdoors, seductive yet often dangerous, has had on his own life.

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