Into the Wild Into the Wild

Into the Wild

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Publisher Description

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. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die.

"It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —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. Not long after, he was dead. 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. 

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. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. 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. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.

Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. 

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. 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. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
1997
January 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
240
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
9.9
MB

Customer Reviews

Phil de Boide ,

Revealing

When I downloaded this book, I had a succinct idea of what it was about, not much more than what reads on the back cover but it has exceeded my expectations a provoked a lot of thought chapter after chapter...

Badbotz ,

A beautiful tragedy

Stunning, inspiring,beautiful and tragic. At once the author shows us the best of humanity's aspirations and will and the hollow sadness of our hubris and folly. Here is a work where you can't help but admire it's focus Mr. McCandless while also pitying the ignorance and confusion that lead him to seek some form of truth in a deadly environment. The novel presents these contradictions in a very human centered tour de force. A must read.

Kim J Powell ,

BEST BOOK EVER

I loved this book so much! I have so many amazing quotes out of this book. I write them down to motivate me. As a person who loves the out doors this book is PERFECT. also I believe that when the author put in his own life stories of climbing was a little edgy but he did it in such a good way I can't complain [ thus the five stars ]. Also some people think that chris was mentally ill. He wasn't. He was a college educated young man who had a education so he knew exactly what he was doing. He was living in the confides of a secure life style, which he did not enjoy. This was his calling. The wild. Just has a horn player knows it's his passion from the first time he picks it up. Or when a swimmer jumps into a pool and has natural talent. This was what he wanted. One if his famous quotes are " there is nothing more damaging to a mans spirit then a secure future." I live by those words. Chris was a man. Not a pycho not a freak not ill. He was original. He actlly went outside he wanted to get dirty he enjoyed his solitary. You might call him a pilgrim perhaps. That is my review great book. Not crazy. Enjoy :)

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