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Into the Wild

by: Jon Krakauer

: Into the Wild
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 364
EAN: 9780333735428
ISBN: 0333735420
Label: Macmillan
Manufacturer: Macmillan
Number Of Pages: 216
Publication Date: March 06, 1998
Publisher: Macmillan
Sales Rank: 1746545
Studio: Macmillan



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Product Description:
Using the true story of a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits of self, leave civilization behind and seek enlightenment through solitude and contact with nature.

Amazon.com Review:
'God, he was a smart kid...' So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, Into the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's 'Alaskan odyssey,' but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner's writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the 1930s: 'At 18, in a dream, he saw himself ... wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams.' Into the Wild shows that McCandless, while extreme, was hardly unique; the author makes the hermit into one of us, something McCandless himself could never pull off. By book's end, McCandless isn't merely a newspaper clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic personality. Whether he was 'a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot,' you won't soon forget Christopher McCandless.



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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - An interesting approach of adventurers psychology through this tragic story
Krakauer, with his experience of extreme adventures and good understanding of psychology, has done ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A tough one to read
"What a waste." That's how I must sum up my reaction to the death of Chris McCandless from starvation, ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Fascinating story of a life outdoors
Just finished this one. I think there is something in all of us that wants to get in touch with the great ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Good Movie, Great Book
I saw the movie before I read the book. Having read "Into Thin Air" before reading "Into the Wild", I was already ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Haunting and spellbinding
I purchased this book after watching the movie and, believe me, the book was just as haunting as the movie. The book ... Read More

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