Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, Krakauer searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled 24-year-old Chris McCandless to leave civilization behind and head Into the remote Alaskan wilderness.
Krakauer brings McCandless\'s uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmati.
He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge.
When McCandless\'s innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris.
Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless.
Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless\'s short life.
Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished Into the wild.
Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away.
He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented.
In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash.
Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir.
Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the Wild and whose story captured the world\'s attention.
Not long after, he was dead. --Entertainment Weekly McCandess 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.
It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order.
This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die.
Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone Into the wilderness north of Mt.
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Mesmerizing and heartbreaking, Krakauer\'s powerful and luminous storytelling blaze through every page.
Four months later, McCandless\'s emaciated corpse was found at his campsite by a hunter.
Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, Krakauer searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled 24-year-old Chris McCandless to leave civilization behind and head Into the remote Alaskan wilderness
