Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
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Author: Jon KrakauerEdition: Paperback
Published: 2007-08-21
ISBN: 0307387178
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Review: Better than the movie...
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is great. A very interesting look into the life of someone who wanted to see things without the rose colored glasses. He wasn't concerned about what color sofa to buy or to make sure he bought a house in a good school district. He was trying to figure things out about himself. Love him or hate him, which a lot of people apperently do hate him, he did what he wanted and didn't care what people thought. If he were still alive, I doubt he would care what you think now. And I don't blame him. Well written. Take it for entertainment value, or don't take it at all...I don't care that much, either.
Summary of Into the Wild
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.
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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