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Into the Wild

by: Jon Krakauer

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 9780739358047
Edition: Unabridged
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 0739358049
Item Dimensions: 6255444498
Label: Random House Audio
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Random House Audio
Number Of Items: 6
Publication Date: August 21, 2007
Publisher: Random House Audio
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Studio: Random House Audio

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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...

"Terrifying...Eloquent...A heart-rending drama wandering of human yearning."--The New York Times

"A narrative of arresting force. Anyone who ever fancied wandering off to face nature on its own harsh terms should give a look. It's gripping stuff."--The Washington Post

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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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